Colombo medical faculty Archives

Colombo Medical School Alumni Association – Australia (CoMSAA) After a long hiatus, a group of interested alumni from the Colombo medical faculty recently formed CoMSAA Australia in consultation with the parent body in Colombo. It has been registered as an incorporated body in Australia and held it’s initial AGM on the 6th of March 2022. The primary objective of the group is to be a forum for the large number of medical undergraduates from Colombo scattered across Australia. The organization is planning its inaugural fellowship dinner on the Saturday 26th of November and hope to include our New Zealand brethren in future. We envisage there are at least 400 alumni residing across Aust/NZ and hope to attract as many as possible to join us. In addition to the fellowship events such as dinner/ cricket matches, we plan to help the Colombo medical faculty by way of providing educational support and ...

Dreaded cancer snatched cruelly the life of physician Gangadari Gardiyawasam nee Aarewatte at relatively young age of 49 years – by Sunil Thenabadu The old saying“good die young”is a phrase typically used as a source of comfort to near and dear ones when a family member or a dear one dies young.Still ,”good die young’ is interpreted to express highly regarded, useful people who are morally upright ,kind and compassionate tend to die at a younger age than most people are accustomed to.These phrases are ideal to describe the demise of Gangadari who died at relatively young age of 49 years.Ganga was a very kind hearted lady doctor ever willing to impart her knowledge to any layman for advise, was ever willing to give a patient hearing to listen to patients health stories. The writer had known Ganga, husband Prabash both medical officers closely for well over a decade when ...