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Friday, April 26, 2019

The massacre in Negombo on Easter Sunday (21st April, 2019)


This note was sent to the CSSL by Dr Ranjith Perera who was on duty and later joined by Dr Rajasekaram, surgeons at Negombo, on behalf of the whole surgical and management team who attended the disaster management at DGH Negombo
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The above incident kept us very busy attending to the mass casualty. We had 102 deaths following this unfortunate incident and most of them were dead by the time they were brought.
We don’t have proper statistics as to how many patients were brought as the number of patients brought in a short time exceeded the capacity to document. Today after 72 hours, only 17 patients are still being treated in the hospital.
The magnitude of the disaster was such that it was at an unmanageable level and therefore we were not able to coordinate it up to our expectations. However the triage team, the Ministry of Health, our hospital staff and the community in Negombo are happy about the way we handled the situation.
All categories of health staff helped in this needy situation irrespective of it being a Sunday. It must be really appreciated that the doctors including various categories of surgeons from neighboring hospitals in the region actively participated in the management of the disaster. Even other specialty consultants and doctors from other hospitals contributed for this successful performance.
Please convey through the College our heartfelt thanks to the surgeons who helped and who inquired to volunteer services whenever necessary.
We had a post event discussion today in order to take steps to minimize the lapses and improve the system which may be useful at any moment to our hospital.
We will appreciate if the CSSL and MOH could coordinate all over the country for all of us to get prepared for disasters of such a magnitude.
Sincerely 
The Surgeons of DGH Negombo.


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