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Uva Hospitals – COVID Project Source:Brisbane 4EB Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – December 2021 Amidst the COVID pandemic creating havoc all over the world including Sri Lanka, we hear of great deeds done by our fellow human beings. Provided below by former High Commissioner for Sri Lanka in Australia, Mr Somasundaram Skandakumar, is another such act of selflessness to help out our fellow Sri Lankans in areas where medical facilities cannot cope with an epidemic of this nature. The 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 initiated and gathered together a like -minded group of humanitarians from Sri Lanka and ...