CoMSAA get together at Beruwala, Sri Lanka.

Nalini & Daya

Thenabadu, Daya & Nalini

 

The mortuary surprise – Story by Dr. Joe Fernando formerDGHS

This story was related to me by Dr. Joe Fernando, a former Director-General of the Health Services of Sri-Lanka. Yes you heard it right. Now there is a Director General, Directing all the other directors under him in our health department. We managed to get a 'General' after all these years.
    Dr. Joe Fernando had been a District Medical Officer in one of the peripheral hospitals, in the 1960s. Maintaining discipline in the work force is one of the many duties a DMO has to shoulder. One night, one of his laborers had come to tell him, that some of the male junior staff were playing cards ("booruwa") for money - gambling -, inside the mortuary building. Dr. Joe Fernando and the laborer were stealthily going towards the building, when they were heard approaching and all the card players fled, leaving the lighted lantern and the cards on a mortuary slab. However Dr. Joe Fernando had gone inside the mortuary. He saw the lantern and the cards and three dead bodies on the bench type mortuary slab. He was about to turn back on what was a 'failed mission', when the laborer accompanying him had told him, that there had been only two dead bodies late in the day, now there were three on the marble slab. It was then that they found out that one of the "dead bodies" was very much alive and was one of the card players. He was too short, to jump over the windows and run for it and had taken quite a bit of liquor. With his 'Dutch courage' he had pretended to be a 'dead body'. Needless to say he was hauled out and faced the consequences.

Buddy and the Ben Brotherhood

 

Buddy & the Ben brotherhood

https://medicalbatchcolombo1960.blogspot.com/search/label/Ben%20brotherhood

 

Obituary Notice, Dr. L.M. Perera.

 

 

Obituary Notice - Dr L M Perera

Inbox

Dear Sir ,Madam ,Members,

It is with profound sadness that I inform the demise of Dr L M Perera, Senior Consultant Urological Surgeon. 

A private funeral has been taken place yesterday 27th September adhering to current health guidelines.

Thank you.

Dr Ranga E Wickramarachchi

Honorary Secretary

THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF SRI LANKA	8:44 AM (9 minutes ago)
to bcc: me

 

Dr. Wettasinghe, Dr. Kothelawale's coat of many Lions Club badges.

I was very happy to see Dr. Wettasinghe and Mrs. at a party held by Dr.Kothelawala, a very reputed GP in Avissawella. Dr.Wettasinghe is related to  Dr. Kotelawala.

The ever present gentle smile on Wettasinghes face brought me back to the Medical College days. He is now settled in New Zealand and was in one of his  periodic visits to Sri Lanka.

Dr. Kotelawala has been a very active member of the Lions club. He has attended various conferances and collected the Lions Club badges all round the globe. I took this picture of the waist coat where the badges have found a permanent place.
                                     

Odds and ends, Old advertisements,

 

Use of Cannabis in India

https://medium.com/entheogen/cannabis-in-india-from-scripture-to-stoners-7b6b756b5bcb

 

Protecting a corpse

https://www.quora.com/When-were-mortsafes-invented-and-for-what-purpose

 

Transmitting COVID

The researchers found that the people with COVID-19 were most likely to transmit the virus between the second day before and the third day after exhibiting symptoms of the infection. The risk of passing on the illness was the highest on the first day of symptomatic illness. But there is a silver lining - people who contracted the virus from asymptomatic COVID-19 patients were less likely to suffer from symptomatic illness as well.

https://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=41639

 

Consultants NHSL on a trip to Alupola waterfalls

At a cafe at Paradise estate - Dr.Daya &  Dr.Nalini Rodrigo, Dr. Manjula Wijewardena and Dr. Burhan

Near the Dehena Ella. Dr. Daya Rodrigo and Dr. Burhan

 

Dr. Sivapatham Thamotharampillai

 

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This photo was taken in 1983 which escaped loss or destruction during our displacement in the year2000.

I think none of you would have seen this.When this was taken when I was away from home and

duty station and had the liberty of growing a beard.

 

 

With Dr. Vignaraja in Trincomalee