Teaching Hospital Kandy, in Kandy, is the second largest General Hospital in Sri Lanka. Bed strength of the hospital was 2258, as of 2009. Teaching Hospital Kandy with strong links to the University of Peradeniya, conducts undergraduate training programmes for the university students studying at the faculties of Medicine, Dental Sciences and Allied Health Sciences. Postgraduate Institute of Medicine which is a national institute attached to the University of Colombo appoints post-graduate trainees and senior registrars to this hospital on a regular basis as this is one of the oldest Hospitals which provides the entire range of medical and surgical specialties under the administration of a single institution.