- September 2022 -

The Joy of healing

September 22, 2022 Dr Gamini Goonetilleke Comments 20 comments

The ‘infant boy’ from a remote village, whose life was saved through surgery for a ‘blocked’ stomach 36 years ago, is a friend now! Chamika Nishad Weerakkody is a 36 year old Draughtsman working in Moneragala. He had been following my YouTube videos and gathered my phone number from the website (drgamini.org). Subsequently a WhatsApp message was sent to me on 6th February 2022, inquiring as to whether I was working at the Polonnaruwa Hospital in the’80s. He said my…

Critically wounded boy’s ‘life saviour’ attends his wedding thirty three (33) years later.

September 12, 2022 Dr Gamini Goonetilleke Comments 16 comments

Link to the story given below: The insurgents exploded a bomb in the Gampaha town on the 19th of September 1989. A three year old boy was critically wounded in this explosion. An emergency neurosurgical procedure was carried out on the injured boy by the General Surgeon at the Base Hospital, Gampaha on that fateful day. The boy’s life was saved and subsequently recovered completely. Thirty three years later, the surgeon who saved the boy’s life attended his wedding and…