I have nothing to do with this racket !
(Lanka-e-News - 20.Nov.2016, 11.55PM) R. Duminda Silva the infamous murderer cum drug dealer now in the death row facing death sentence, charged with the brutal cold blooded murder of Baratha Lakshman and three others in broad daylight, and who through spurious diagnoses and feigning fake illnesses tried to get admitted to Jayawardenapura hospital was sent back without admission.
The chairman of the hospital , Dr.Athula Kahandaliyanage has written a letter (appended herein) to Lanka e news in an effort to exonerate himself of any blame fastened on him in this connection , and saying he has nothing to do with this racket .
On the 14 th Lanka e news reported under the caption
‘Conspiracy to smuggle out infamous criminal Duminda ! -Fudging judge, medical specialists and media coolie involved’ reported this news.
In that report it is the following paragraph which made reference to Dr. Kahandaliyanage :
‘Duminda who was dispatched to Jayawardenapura hospital on the 11 th was sent back however. The reason for this cited by Dr. Kahanda Liyanage was , the medical specialist Maheshi Wijeratne (who furnished a bogus medical certificate earlier on to send Duminda to Singapore is not in the Island and therefore medical treatment cannot be given. This course of action is most outrageous and abhorrent. Where on earth do such things take place and in which hospital in the world is a patient who is dispatched for treatment sent back without being treated just because a particular doctor is not there ? This clearly bears out that if by any another doctor examines Duminda , and states Duminda is not having any sickness , the entire conspiracy they are striving hard to conceal would be exposed, and the cat would be out of the bag. ‘
According to Kahandaliyanage , he along with his family and some friends were in Mannar ( in an Islet) on holiday on the day (11th Nov.) Duminda was sent back by Jayawardena hospital ,and that he went to Mannar on the 10 th and returned to Colombo on the 14 th (Monday night).
Hence Duminda Silva was sent back not by him , and it was by Dr. Susitha Senaratne ( Hospital Director) and Dr.Santhusha Fernando (Assist. Director) , and Kahandaliyanage was informed about it later via phone, Dr. Kahandaliyanage had stated.
Duminda was dispatched to be admitted to the neuro ward of Jayawardenapura hospital of most notorious doctor Ms. Maheshi Wijeratne . Since the latter was overseas , the patient was sent back without admission , and the Director of the hospital has informed that to Kahandaliyanage .
Kahandaliyanage who approved the refusal of admission , says there was nothing conspiratorial as reported by Lanka e news.
However he went on to clarify , when there are hospitals to treat prisoners who are sentenced , it is the policy of Jayawardenapura hospital , a fee levying semi private hospital not to treat such prisoners. No prisoner who is sentenced by court has ever been brought to Jayawardenapura hospital for treatment in its history , he asserted.
Moreover , while there is the National hospital ,Colombo which is in close proximity to the prison hospital, and a state of the art newly established neurosurgical unit is there in the National hospital , there is no necessity at all for a prisoner to be dispatched to Jayawardena hospital .There are four neurosurgeons working 24 hours of the day at the National hospital whereas Jayawardenapura hospital has only one neurosurgeon , and that is Dr. Ms. Maheshi Wijeratne, she has pointed out .
Besides , the employees of his hospital are even reluctant to admit remand prisoners for medical treatment because they cannot shoulder the responsibility of providing security to them , Kahandaliyanage has elaborated.
Kahandaliyanage who says he has nothing to do with the conspiracy linked to most infamous criminal and heroin Kingpin Duminda Silva , also stated , on the first occasion when Duminda was brought to Jayawardenapura hospital for treatment too, he was not in the Island, let alone in Jayawardenapura hospital. At that time he was working as a Director for the WHO/South East Asia Regional Office, Delhi, India from February 2010 till February 2014, he has stated in his letter.
We must thank Dr. Kahandaliyanage for the explanation offered and revealing the facts to the public from his perspective in connection with the refusal to accept Duminda Silva , and if he says he is not involved in the conspiracy , we shall accept his position.
Yet , the question raised by Lanka e news in our earlier report has not been answered . That is ,if and when Dr. Maheshi who was a party to the conspiracy regarding Duminda’s sickness from the beginning was not available , and say another doctor had taken up the case and confirmed that Duminda is not suffering from such a grave disease ?
This is because it was possible for the Jayawardenapura hospital to accept the patient duly ,and diagnose his actual sickness (not feigned) , if any , and transferred the patient back to the National hospital .
In any event , after Jayawardenapura hospital refusing to accept ’sick’ Duminda , and the subsequent exposure of Lanka e news , Duminda having been cured now is a matter for surprise and is most perplexing because Duminda was supposedly in a terribly sick state with the prison hospital unable to treat him on the 11 th, and Jayawardenapura hospital too refusing to accept him . Strangely the corrupt scoundrels in the prison also had taken no action to admit ‘serious’ Duminda to any other hospital. Yet unbelievably ‘critical’ Duminda is now cured .
Kahandaliyanage deserves a special pat on the back if he has cured that patient without treatment .
Connected report
‘Conspiracy to smuggle out infamous criminal Duminda ! -Fudging judge, medical specialists and media coolie involved’
Dear Chief Editor Sandaruwan,
I am a regular visitor to your web site. I had a lot of faith in the credibility of the substance you publish. But now I have my doubts about it with my personal first hand experience with regard to the following.
This refers to the article that you published regarding the death row prisoner Duminda de Silva, who was taken to Sri JayawardenepuraHospital (SJGH) and refused admission on or around 11 Nov 2016.
I am, Dr. Athula Kahandaliyanage, Chairman of SJGH and I have been implicated in your article as getting involved in a conspiracy to smuggle out this prisoner and also that as a part of that conspiracy I refused the prisoner admission to SJGH the ward on 11 November.
I wish to bring to your notice that I was no-where in Jayawardenepura or even in Colombo when this drama happened at SJGH. I was in fact in Mannar Island with my family and friends on holiday from 10th night and returned on Monday, the 14th which was the the Poya holiday).
I was not aware of it till I heard it from a friend on 10th night. I called the Director, Dr. Susitha Senaratne on my way to Mannar, to verify what it was all about and learnt that the Deputy Director and Director had already addressed the issue.
The Director said that the prisoner Duminda de Silva was brought to be admitted to the Neuro Surgeon Dr Wijeratne's ward at SJGH. Since Dr Wijerathna was overseas Dr Senaratna who was present in the hospital at that time has refused to accept the prisoner as there was no neurosurgeon to treat him at that time. Therefore Dr Senaratna has sent the prisoner back, which I agreed was the right thing to do at that moment.
I advised the Director and the Deputy Director that a convicted prisoner cannot be admitted to SJGH because the accepted policy and what is practiced is that convicted prisoners are admitted to the Government General Hospital where the required speciality is available. On the other hand the management is of the view that SJGH being a fee levying semi- private hospital we cannot take the responsibility about such a prisoner's safety and security.
In this case the prisoner should have been referred by the prison authorities to the National Hospital where the best Neurosurgical unit in the country with more than four Neurosurgeons are available to give the best care to the prisoner. This is what usually done by the prison authorities for other prisoners.
Furthermore the Prison authorities should have first contacted the Director SJGH and asked for permission to send the patient to SJGH. Had they done so this problem would not have arisen.
Hence your news item is factually incorrect, and not credible at all. You can verify from hospital staff, the Director, Dr Senaratna or Deputy Director, Dr Santhushya Fernando who would give you the correct picture.
I also wish to add that I was not associated with this patient's treatment provided at SJGH in the previous occasion too since I was out of the country, working as a Director for the WHO/South East Asia Regional Office, Delhi, India from February 2010 till February 2014.
This article has brought in very serious implications against my image and profession. I also would like to state that as a regular visitor to your site I would expect the site to carry credible news.
I sincerely hope that you verify the credibility of my claim and take suitable action soon
Dr. Athula Kahandaliyanage
Chairman, SJGH
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Lot of debate too and fro about a drug dealer who may have caused the death of many, if not by a pistol bullet, by a drug overdose. Now does such a crimimal pronounced guilty need to be "cured" of a "brain disease" before he is sent to the gallows?Cannot sick people be punsihed by the law? Perhaps not. That mey be the reason why many Lankans end up in a hospital bed instead of in a prison bunker.Long live the justice system of mother Lanka!Jayawewa!
-- by Dr Sageewa on 2016-11-21
