Education, Teaching & Research Unit

Education, Teaching and Research Unit (ETRU) of National Blood Transfusion Service is responsible to train all staff categories who are attach to Blood bank services.


Medical Officers, Nursing Officers, Public Health Inspectors, Medical Laboratory Technologists, Junior Staff members and Drivers are given training regarding Blood banking.

In addition, Oversees trainers of various categories of medical fields are allocated to training in this section periodically.

Medical students of state universities of Colombo, Sri Jayewardenepura and Kotalawala Defense University are allocated to ETRU for their Blood bank teaching appointments.

Officers from Army and Navy also attached to complete their educational training in ETRU at National Blood Center, Narahenpita.

Contact Us

Address : ETRU, National Blood Center, No.555/5D, Elvitigala Mawatha, Colombo 05, Sri Lanka.

Tel : +94 112 369 931

Fax : +94 112 369 937 / +94 112 369 939

Email : moic.etrunbc@gmail.com