Novandi Samarasinghe

• Emergency Medical Team Leadership:

• Patient Triage: Assess and prioritize patients based on the severity of their condition or injury

• Emergency Medical Care: Provide timely and appropriate medical care to patients presenting with a wide range of acute illnesses, injuries, or emergencies.

• Diagnostic Evaluation: Conduct thorough physical examinations, order and interpret diagnostic investigations,

• Treatment and Stabilization

• Emergency Procedures: Perform emergency procedures such as intubation, central line placement, chest tube inser- tion, and others as necessary.

• Collaboration and Consultation: Consult with specialists or other healthcare professionals

• OPD Treatment : Providing care for patient who has visited for out-patint treatment and prescribing medicine and investigations if necessary.

• Patient Referrals : Referring patient to specialist who need further investigations to diagnose rare and potentially life threatening diseases.

• Admit the patients who needs inward care to the wards.

• Health Education : Conducting health education programs , workshops and seminars for the benefit of the OPD staff.

•Health Information Management: Oversee the collection, storage, organization, and retrieval of health-related data within the healthcare organization. Ensure the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of health information systems.

•System Implementation and Optimization: Collaborate with IT teams and stakeholders to implement new health information systems and upgrade existing ones. • Initiated PACS in the hospital • Worked in the Health Information Management System at the OPD and the admission setup

•Health Informatics Education and Training: Provide training and education to healthcare staff on health informatics principles, practices, and technologies

• Collaborative development: Participated actively in the Hospital Planning Unit Committee meetings, Technical committee meetings and Procurement committee meetings.

•Health Information Management: Oversee the collection, storage, organization, and retrieval of health-related data within the NCCP working in the CANREG 5 system.

•System Implementation and Optimization: Development, piloting, effectiveness evaluation of a LMS for training users of the National Cancer Registry Data Surveillance System

•Health Informatics Education and Training: Provide training and education to healthcare staff on health informatics principles, practices

• Collaborative development: Participated in the discussions with the Health Information Management Unit of Ministry of Health Sri Lanka, for adding a Cancer Module to the Hospital Health Information Management System.

•Health Information Management: Oversee the collection, storage, organization, retrieval and display of COVID 19 data of the central province

· Software Development & Engineering –
· Networking & IT Systems
· Health Informatics & Bioinformatics
· IT Security & Law
· Medical & Public Health Data Management · Research & Scientific Writing
· Management & Professional Ethics

•Emergency Medical Care: Provide timely and appropriate medical care to patients presenting with a wide range of acute illnesses, injuries, or emergencies.

• Treatment and Stabilization

• Inward Care: Conducting daily ward rounds in morning and evening to assess inward patients & providing on-call duties in the hospital.

•Patient care: Providing primary care for all the patient visiting Emergency Care, Outpatient Services, Inpatient Care, and Health Promotion and Preventive Care through NCD programs.

• Transfer of Patients: Identification of acutely ill patient who needs further care, at tertiary institution and transferring of patient and accompanying them if necessary.

•OPD Treatment:

•Conducting clinics for chronic non-communicable diseases such as IHD, HTN, and DM, CKD & Bronchial Asthma etc. and appropriate specialist referral to minimize or early identification of NCD complications.

•Antenatal and Family Planning Clinics

•Surgical Procedures: Carrying out minor surgical procedures

•Maternity Care: Providing maternity care for patient who has admitted for labour. Postpartum care and new-born care for mother and newborn.

•Patient Referrals: Referring patient to specialist who need further investigations to diagnose rare and potentially life threatening diseases.

•Patient Triage: Evaluate and prioritize patients based on the severity of their condition or injury, ensuring that the most critical cases receive immediate attention.

•Emergency Medical Care: Deliver prompt and appropriate medical care to patients with various acute illnesses, such as myocardial infarction (MI), acute heart failure (AHF), sepsis, pulmonary oedema strokes, and life-threatening asthma, road traffic accidents, anaphylaxis etc.

• Treatment and Stabilization: Administer emergency treatments and interventions, including intravenous (IV) cannulation, arterial blood gas (ABG) sampling, and advanced life support (ALS) procedures such as endotracheal (ET) tube intubation.

•Medical Procedures: Perform venesections, ascitic fluid aspiration, pleural fluid aspiration, joint aspiration, and intra-articular injections.

• Conducted initial assessments for patients in surgical and medical wards and performed pre-operative evaluations for surgical cases.
• Managed surgical emergencies , monitored critically ill patients , and administered blood products with strict verification.
• Assisted in major surgeries , performed minor surgical procedures , and executed essential medical interventions such as urinary catheterization, NG tube insertion, and IV cannulation.
• Participated in ward rounds , documented patient progress, and managed patient transfers for further care.
• Served as the first-contact doctor for pediatric admissions, handled emergency assessments , and initiated preliminary management with necessary diagnostic investigations.
• Conducted daily ward rounds , ensured safe blood transfusions , documented diagnosis cards , and reported notifiable diseases .
• Assisted in NICU emergencies , attended elective caesarean deliveries , provided neonatal care, and participated in mortality review meetings .
• Engaged in clinical discussions , contributed to monthly audits , and collaborated with specialists for integrated patient care.