Teaching Hospital Kurunegala, which was established in late 1890s, renders a great service for the people in North Western province, patients from the other districts also, namely Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Trincomalee and Mathale. It is situated on the Colombo Kurunegala road about 0.75 k.m. away from the city towards Colombo. It has inward, outpatient departments and clinic facilities. The functioning units include, General Medicine, General Surgery, Paediatric, Dermatology, Rheumatology, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Orthopedic, Neonatology, Neurology, Psychiatry, ENT Surgery, Maxillofacial surgery, Ophthalmic surgery, Genito-urinary Surgery, Surgical Oncology and Chest medicine. The bed strength is over 2300 and the staff is over 4000.The hospital spreads over 35 acres land and serves people through more than 100 units. The Teaching Hospital Kurunegala caters more than one million patients annually. The average outside patients is coming to the hospital for treatment counts more than 20% of the annual total. Over 20,000 Obstetric admissions and over 14,000 deliveries take place annually in THK.Over 24,000 minor and 12,000 major surgeries are also performed annually, in order to provide better healthcare to the people. The medical laboratory at Teaching Hospital Kurunegala offers a tremendous service to the patients, carrying out over 60,000 investigations per month. For the past few years, the hospital had a rapid development programme in infrastructure and improvement in quality of work together.