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Sri Lankan BMT project
John Moore
Haematology Department
St. Vincents Hospital
Why BMT for Sri Lanka?
• Currently, patients with haematological malignancies need
to travel to Singapore and India for stem cell transplants.
• Highly motivated and educated medical community.
– NCI
– NBTS
• Committed government authorities – doubling of per capita
health expenditure 2011-16 (Australia-Sri Lanka aid program strategy 2012-16).
• Infrastructure currently being constructed
• Health expenditure as GDP/capita is appropriate for BMT
• BMT can be cost effective for thalassemia/CML.
Sri Lanka visit
April 2014
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Visit for 4 days with David Ma
One day at National Cancer Institute Maharagama
Attended the Annual Sessions of the Sri Lankan College of Transfusion Physicians
Inspected the National Centre for Blood transfusion
Long term plan is for 16 SL staff to come to SVH for training over a 1-4month period
in 2015.
• Funding applications submitted to Commonwealth Endeavour Education Fellowship
and Australia Award Fellowship.
• Attendance at WBMT meeting in South Africa November 2014.
• Ist autologous BMT in late 2015 (with supervision)
• Development of allografting/BMDU in 2016
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Staff list
Feb-June 2015 mentorship
Medical
• 4 consultants
- 1 Oncologist
- 1 Haematologist
- 1 Microbiologist
- 1 Transfusion Medicine
• 2 Oncology Fellows
• 1 Microbiology Fellow
• 1 Transfusion Medicine
Fellow
Nursing/Allied Health
• 5 nursing staff
- 2 Oncology
- 2 Transfusion medicine
(apheresis)
- 1 Infection control
• 2 Scientists
• 1 Pharmacist
NCI/NBTS visit April 2014
Footnote to go here
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Conclusions/Thanks
• Time is right for BMT in Sri Lanka
• Website development is another step in the process.
• Grateful for the support of:
– High Commissioner Thisara Samarasinghe
– Chrysanthi and Jude Fernando
– Australian Public Services Commission’s Social Club
– St. Vincents Hospital
– Dr Kanishka Karunaratne - NCI
– Dr Lakmali Morawaka - NBTS