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MARITIME DOCTRINE OF SRI LANKA
Network with Naval ICT systems without any interruption.

Plans are afoot to upgrade data capacity and upgrade PABX to latest SIP
enabled technology in keeping with the advancements of technology
providing digital voice, data, video, sensor information towards secure,
advanced, fully paperless administration and operations of SLN.

Routine Inspection at NMC

Naval Biomedical Unit (NBU)

SLN Biomedical Engineering Unit has been initially established at Naval
Headquarters in year 2005 with the aim of ensuring the operational
availability and improve mean time between failure of all biomedical
equipment used in the Health Department of SLN, and later extended
to other areas. The Central Biomedical Engineering Workshop at
present functions at Naval General Hospital (Colombo) at Welisara and
biomedical engineering workshops in areas are responsible for repair
and maintenance of all biomedical equipment used in naval hospitals
and sick bays. Specialised biomedical engineer officers and biomedical
engineering technicians along with necessary tools and equipment have
been set up at all naval hospitals in order to carry out planned preventive
maintenance, break down maintenance, installation and calibration of

194 To Nurture a Stable Environment at Sea