Let us all be proud that we are ‘Sri Lankans’ by Harold Gunatillake Dear Readers, I would like to share this exposure published in the ‘Leader’ 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. We migrated to this lucky country when the situation back home, mainly our living conditions were at its lowest. So as the saying goes,” We left the sinking ship’. Most of us still have connections with our mother country and we cannot forget the good times we had. Why I left Sri Lanka in 1972 was, mainly due to the lack of facilities in Hospitals for the proper care of patients. 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 ...

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