OBITUARY Dr AHMED NAISZ HANIFFA 9 JANUARY 1935 – 7 DECEMBER 2023 It is with much sadness that I refer to the death of Dr AN Haniffa who I have known for the past nearly eighty years. Affectionately called “Hani” or even “Honey” he was one of three Moor boys who entered Royal College in 1946. The two others viz Hussein Ismeth Rahim aka Tooty, Jehan Raheem, have both predeceased him. Dr AN aniffa Haniffa on completing his education at Royal College, entered the Ceylon Medical College following in the footsteps of elder brother MN Haniffa who was a year senior to us in school. I know that the elder brother represented Royal at Rugby, and I have a faint recollection of Hani too playing rugby for Royal. Both brothers passed out as doctors in the mid to late nineteen fifties. After gaining post graduate qualifications in England, Hani ...
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Presidential Task Force needed to put medical tourism strategy in motion, says official-By Sanath Nanayakkare The political leadership and business community of the country need to show the world that they trust the healthcare system in Sri Lanka in order to convince foreign visitors to choose Sri Lanka for healthcare services, , Ms. Dhammika Wijesinghe, Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Tourism says Source:Island Revenue from medical tourism could help national economic recovery and growth, and therefore, we need a Presidential Task Force that could effectively speed up and harness the economic benefits of medical tourism, Ms. Dhammika Wijesinghe, Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Tourism said in Colombo on Saturday. “The main impact of medical tourism is that it brings direct foreign exchange earnings and contributes greatly to government revenues. So we need to invest in the development of local infrastructure to attract foreign medical tourists for treatments. This ...
Science and medicine were part of my life – Dr. Maheshi N. Ramasamy, Principal Investigator for the Oxford COVID-19 This young lady is the daughter of old Royalist Dr Ranjan Ramasamy. He was first to get 8Ds at the 1964 O Level exam Dinner table chats with her scientist-parents and hospital ward rounds with her Puncha, these were what inspired her, says Dr. Maheshi N. Ramasamy, Principal Investigator for the Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Trial, in this interview with Kumudini Hettiarachchi (Source: Sunday Times Sri Lanka) Totally relaxed, she comes on Zoom on Wednesday – at the appointed hour of 12 Greenwich Meantime Time (GMT) in Oxford, England, and 5.30 p.m. in Sri Lanka. No one would imagine that pretty Dr. Maheshi N. Ramasamy, who is quick to smile and chats leisurely, has been having a “crazy” time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world. Dr. Ramasamy delivering a lecture on vaccines ...
