UVA Hospitals – Covid Project. At a time of national emergency, in early June 2021, Senior Medical Officer, Dr. Upul Ranasinghe attached to the Bandarawela Hospital saw a rising wave of Covid patients in the Uva Province which he knew  the hospitals would be ill equipped to handle.  He reached out to Dr. Nalaka Mendis(Emeritus Professor, Colombo University)who immediately responded by calling on Dr. Naj Nagendran (Foundation of Goodness- USA) and gathered together a like-minded group of humanitarians from Sri Lanka and overseas to include  Mr. Manik Jayakumar (Q Trade Teas & Herbs USA, ), Mr. Felix Stephen ((Volunteers to Assist Children with Disabilities , Sydney ) Mr. S. Skandakumar (OruPaanai Trust- SL & UK ) Mr. Kushil Gunasekera (Foundation of Goodness) and Dr. Erosha Premaratne  ( Australia Sri Lanka Medical Aid Team) to raise funds and equipment urgently. With the number of Covid related deaths rising day by day and ...

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