Peradeniya ( Sinhala : පේරාදෙණිය , romanized: Pēradeniya ; Tamil : பேராதனை , romanized: Pērātaṉai ) is a suburb of the city of Kandy , Sri Lanka with about 30,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the A1 main road, a few kilometres west of Kandy city centre. Peradeniya's name is derived from pera ( guava ) and deniya (a plain).
3-586: Teaching Hospital, Peradeniya , is one of the three hospitals in Peradeniya , Sri Lanka . It is one of the leading community teaching hospitals in Sri Lanka, affiliated with the University of Peradeniya . In addition to delivering medical care to patients, it facilitates undergraduate training programmes for the university students studying in the faculties of Medicine , Dental Sciences and Allied Health Sciences . It
6-590: The National Hospital, Kandy . Peradeniya Peradeniya is famous for the Royal Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya . It is situated in a slope of the Mahaweli river and attracts many visitors from Sri Lanka as well as from abroad. Another key attribute of this suburb is the University of Peradeniya . Its buildings are of mixed colonial and traditional Sri Lankan/South Asian styles, and located amongst
9-622: Was established in 1980. The hospital is situated aside the A1 highway connecting Kandy and Colombo , near the Royal Botanical Gardens, Peradeniya . It is established and administered under the purview of the Ministry of Health Care and Nutrition , Sri Lanka. The hospital has a bed strength of 960, as of 2009. It is the second largest hospital in Central Province, Sri Lanka , second only to
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