Prof Sanath Lamabadusuriya
Guest lecture at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Annual sessions in Liverpool. 2022.
Sanath Lamabadusuriya is in the UK at the moment. The main reason for his visit was to deliver a Guest Lecture last Wednesday the 29th of June, at the annual sessions of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, held in Liverpool.
I have included a YouTube link and embedded video
of the talk,
Ruwan treated Sanath with a tour of the Chester area known for its historic attractions. The photo shows Ruwan and Sanath enjoying an ice cream cone on a beautiful sunny day.
I believe that Sanath will be returning to Sri Lanka on the 8th of July
Mahendra "Speedy" Gonsalkorale
Hi Lama I listened to your lecture with great interest. First let me congratulate you on being invited to deliver this lecture. I believe you are the first Asian to do so .Another First to be added be added to your long list of achievements. Proud of you!
ReplyDeleteI really liked your reference to our glorious past.Its such a shame that indigenous medicine did not progress as it should over the years. Mostly due to the influence of Western Medicine, and also due to the fact that many cures were kept secret passing on from father to son .
We need to accept the value of herbal cures. In fact I took a big pack of" Peyawa " mixture when I first went to UK. I had to explain what it was to the customs.
I used to work for over 10 years with Randunna Corea Orthopedic surgeon . He had a very cordial relationship with the Oruwila Veda
mahattaya Randunna used to encourage his patients to go to him for oil massages after the surgical Incision was heald. The Vedas in return would refer all the complicated and displaced fractures to Randunna instead of wasting time applying patthus .
We certainly have a proud record of excellent Medical Services.
I do hope and pray that the those who are in position of leadership will strive to preserve and protect if instead of neglecting it as they are presently doing. causing acute shortages of drugs and equipment and making it impossible for health personal to even be able to report for work by enduring fuel supply.
Sorry should read ensuring fuel supply. Many doctors are walking ( when it's shorter distances) cycling or using public transport which is absolutely hair raising and dangerous as you all have seen from news clips. My son has been picked up by the hospital ambulance several times when on duty in the I C U. He has waited up to 8 hours in petrol queues on 4 consecutive days and yet failed to get any petrol . In fact I siphoned some petrol out of my car to rescue him when his car stalled in a petrol queque on Monday !
ReplyDeleteHi Again Lama,
ReplyDeleteYour lecture was very comprehensive, high lighting all the achievements of the past and did Sri Lanka proud.
We should indeed be proud of eradicating Polio.If I remember right the Rotary Club of Sri Lanka gave its fullest support and helped in small way to achieve this.
Irradiation of Diptheria is another great achievement. I
still remember getting Diptheria as a 5 year old kid and can clearly remember the painful Penicillin injections given twice a day . As an Anaesthetist I've had to provide Anaesthesia several times to perform Tracheostomies.
Mumps and Measles, two horrors that thank God our children and grand children don't have to battle with these days .Chicken pox another horror that we don't face or even if we do only an attenuated attack these days
On a personal note , I still shudder to remember getting Chicken pox while in the UK and getting Myocarditis as a complication. I was treated by Douglas Chamberlain the well known Cardiologist as I was working at Kings as an SR. Can you remember Prof Rajasuriya's female SHO
-(I forget her name she was married to a then famous cricketer )who had the same complication and was on steroids for a long time and finally succumbed . Thank God Chamberlain treated me differently. I remember being on Medical leave for 3 months, having to go for repeated ECGs .
Once again well done. We are proud of you !
Lama
ReplyDeleteLet me first congratulate you on delivering this guest lecture in Liverpool. It is an honour to Sri Lanka.
I found it very interesting and learnt quite a lot about our ancient medicine.
You have made Sri Lanka proud.
Well done.
Chira
Dear Sanath and Mahen,
ReplyDeleteThank you for publishing this in the Blog along with the interesting photographs. The one of both of you was very good and you appear to have benefited from a good English summer in a salubrious country town. Glad to hear that Mahen has recovered well from the bout of Covid.
Sanath your lecture was very illuminating and illustrated the remarkable medical traditions of our very advanced civilisation.
It was a great honour to you personally, and to SriLanka too, for being partnered by a very eminent paediatrician at a prestigious conference.
Best wishes and Kindest regards to you both.
Kumar
Thank you very much Mahendra, Suriyakanthi Chita and Kumar for your very sincere sentiments. I first met Prof Mike Dillon exactly 50 years ago in 1972, in the animal house of the Institute of Child Health, London ,when both of us were engaged in research, which led to a PhD. He happens to be my longest standing British friend.
ReplyDeleteMy lecture was appreciated very much by the participants
I was also entertained in Wakefield by two of my former students Jayantha and Manouri Senaratna ( née Sannasgala).These are few of the rewards for being a medical academic for 53 years .
FROM NIHAL -ND AMARASEKERA
ReplyDeleteDear Sanath
Firstly my sincere apologies for the delayed response to your wonderful lecture delivered with such style and panache full of interesting facts and figures. I suffered from an attack of Covid at the time this was published in the blog and my holiday in Scotland took me away from my iPad and laptop.
You have traced the history of medicine and paediatrics in Sri Lanka and much of it was new to me. Mentioning the names and the photos of my revered teachers brought back many memories.
The many achievements in childcare in Sri Lanka to bring it into line with that of the West is a tremendous accomplishment. From vaccinations and inoculations against childhood infections to the care of cleft lip and cleft palate what has been achieved is simply marvellous. You have indeed been at the centre of many projects for the betterment of paediatrics in Sri Lanka. Your commitments to medical education in general and paediatrics in particular are legendary. We are indeed very proud you belong to our batch. Your continued support for medicine in Sri Lanka during this financial crisis is most commendable.