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| Saturday, 18 October 2003 |
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Free cancer hospital in Kurunegala From Nanda Ekanayake Kurunegala Central Group Corr A project has been started in Kurunegala area to construct a cancer hospital to treat the patients who are suffering from cancer. For this purpose Dr. M. A. Wickramarathna from his own funds amounting Rupees four hundred lakhs (Rs. 40,000,000) proposed to construct the hospital at Salam state in Dambepola in the division of Mallawapitiya Divisional secretariat area. The doctor has worked in the Netherland as a specialist neurologist for a period of 35 years. He has come back to Sri Lanka to reside here and is performing this great task for the love of his own people. This service will be free of charge. Till he reached the age of 65 years this doctor had travelled in all the countries in the world and the wealth that he has collected from his professional is to be spent for the health of his own people in this country and his main purpose is to build this hospital for his own people. For this hospital he has to pay his employees such as care takers and fifteen workers from his own funds. At present to cure cancer patients the modus operandi is to keep a module in the patient's body. This method is not used by this doctor. In the Netherlands for a patient the expenditure is about Rs. 100 lakhs. In the Netherland for a year about 65,000 die of cancer and about 45,000 are suffering from cancer. This doctor was born at Sumangala Mawatha in Colombo and studied at Nalanda College. In the year 1964 he passed out as a Doctor (MBBS) in Sri Lanka and went to England. After going there he has passed many examinations in the field of medicine. Later he went to the Netherlands and conducted many experimental investigations while he was working as a doctor of medicine. For the services he had been rendering for the period of 35 years in that country Queen Breatice has made him a knight. He married a Netherlands lady named Eblin Daicama, and she is a doctor serving in Jeensbal Hospital in the Netherlands. He said, his elder sister Mrs. Daluwatta and his wife Daicama are assisting him in this great task. |
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