{"id":85309,"date":"2022-01-29T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=85309"},"modified":"2022-01-29T06:07:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T06:07:17","slug":"let-us-all-be-proud-that-we-are-sri-lankans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/let-us-all-be-proud-that-we-are-sri-lankans\/","title":{"rendered":"Let us all be proud that we are \u2018Sri Lankans\u2019 by  Harold Gunatillake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>Let us all be proud that we are \u2018Sri Lankans\u2019 by<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #800000;\">Harold Gunatillake<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dear Readers,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I would like to share this exposure published in the \u2018Leader\u2019 Sutherland shire Newspaper in NSW, which is sure to bring pride to all our Sri Lankans migrated here, bringing in much credit to our motherland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">We migrated to this lucky country when the situation back home, mainly our living conditions were at its lowest. So as the saying goes,\u201d We left the sinking ship\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Most of us still have connections with our mother country and we cannot forget the good times we had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Why I left Sri Lanka in 1972 was, mainly due to the lack of facilities in Hospitals for the proper care of patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I was lastly, working as General Surgeon in Badulla Provincial Hospital in the early seventies. Believe me, there was a dearth of antibiotics, including saline given intravenously to emergency required cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">At that time there was a shortage of food items, and the distribution of cloth material and most food items were distributed by the Corps and our wives had to wait in long queues to purchase our weekly needs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The\u00a0<strong>1971 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna insurrection<\/strong>\u00a0(also known as the\u00a0<em>1971 Revolt<\/em>) was an armed revolt conducted by the\u00a0communist\u00a0Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna\u00a0(JVP) against the Government of Ceylon under\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Sirimavo Bandaranaike. The revolt began on 5 April 1971 and lasted till June 1971.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">One Sunday morning gunshot injured casualties were brought from Passara district to Badulla General Hospital, and I was on duty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I spend the whole day treating the gun-shot injuries of those innocent village folk. That was the last straw that broke the camel\u2019s back and we decided to leave the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">We are all ambassadors now for our country, and we must bring credibility by working for our community and others and be united as a Sri Lankan overseas community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Our pride for our motherland should not come after our country becomes great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Our motherland becomes great because of our pride in it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Thanks for reading this message.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"name headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Sutherland doctor receives OAM in Australia Day Honours 2022 &#8211; By Eva Kolimar<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Source:<\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theleader.com.au\/story\/7589653\/supporting-fellow-sri-lankans-in-health\/?fbclid=IwAR1Br5gEgG8UT_KjTLVEpoc_pzrF2x-AhMX6zKyDfEDkYvz7q0Y6GSVztq8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theleader.com.au<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__information\">\n<div class=\"signature\">\n<div class=\"signature__info\">\n<div class=\"assets\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_85310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85310\" style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-85310 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sutherland-doctor-receives-OAM-in-Australia-Day-Honours-2022.jpg\" alt=\"Sutherland doctor receives OAM in Australia Day Honours 2022\" width=\"377\" height=\"678\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"> Medical field: Harold Gunatillake receives an OAM for service to medicine, and to the Sri Lankan community.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Sutherland&#8217;s Harold Gunatillake is proud to receive an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for service to medicine, and to the Sri Lankan community of NSW, in this year&#8217;s Australia Day Honours.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-adCall\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A distinguished medical professional who is now retired, Dr Gunatillake was one of the most talented doctors of Sri Lankan origin to be admitted as Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in the UK.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-titan-mobile-pos1\" class=\"advertisement\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"advertisement conditional \"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He actively publishes article and books on health. He created his own website where he presents video presentations.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"assets\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He is affiliated with the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, is a former medical practitioner of Sutherland Hospital, and is associated with many medical organisations as a member, including the Academy of Medicine in Singapore, Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, among many others.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"assets\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m honoured to receive this,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"assets\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve written over 400 health articles and have done more than 50 YouTube presentations to educate the community in health issues such as heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us all be proud that we are \u2018Sri Lankans\u2019 by\u00a0Harold Gunatillake Dear Readers, I would like to share this exposure published in the \u2018Leader\u2019 Sutherland shire Newspaper in NSW, which is sure to bring pride to all our Sri Lankans migrated here, bringing in much credit to our motherland. 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