All the government hospital are run with public funds even though they provide services free of charge at the point of delivery. People can access to hospitals once they are ill or as bystanders of the patients. There is no mechanism in place to make the public aware the services provided by the government hospital which results in a knowledge gap. This lack of awareness will give rise to bypassing health facilities, seeking services from private sector unnecessarily and overcrowding in tertiary care institutions.

By introducing a concept like ‘hospital open day’, hospital authorities will be given an opportunity to showcase the services provided by them to general public.

This will also be helpful in reducing communication gaps between the parties and to build a good rapport. Once the people are exposed to the hospital, they can identify the existing needs of the institutions. This will lead to increase number of donors; it can vary from financial donations, blood donation and to getting registered for the organ donation.

Therefor implementing of this activity would be mutually beneficial to all the stakeholders.There are some global examples of conducting of ‘hospital open day’ especially at hospital govern by the NHS fund in United Kingdom. But the details on their outcome and impact are scarce in available literature.

This program consists of two component.

• To develop hospital open day package and guide through series of consultative meeting.
• To implement the Open day program in selected hospitals in Sri Lanka.