Thushari de Silva, aged 12, watched from the roof of her house as both her parents were swept out to sea and killed by the Boxing-Day tsunami. In this January 5, 2005 photo from Galle, she is comforted by Harini Amarasuriya, a child protection officer.
@erangatennakoon Watching the health-related COPE was like witnessing a train wreck.
The way the administrators attempted to absolve themselves of the corruption they enabled on behalf of politicians was nothing short of farcical.
It is all too easy to feign innocence...
The Colombo High Court has sentenced a Divisional Development Officer to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment after he was found guilty of soliciting a sexual bribe from a 30-year-old mother who sought government financial assistance for her 7-year-old child’s kidney surgery.
Aww, it's cute seeing so much generalized doctor hate on Twitter from people who have literally sent DMs asking for medical advice, free treatment,or checking up on their loved ones in the hospital, which we hv literally gone out of our way to do.
I hope you heal.
#NotAllDoctors
When countless women were raped in SL,WE were THERE.
We were there with survivors, tending to their wounds,preserving/giving evidence,drafting guidelines.
Today we are HERE.
Standing together in protest against the most atrocious attack on one of US in a HOSPITAL.
Where were YOU?
This Women's Day, we discussed workplace harassment & how there is no effective complaint mechanism in Healthcare.
It's striking that a predominantly female field still faces widespread harassment, now normalized..
The time to make actual change is now!
I seem to have been getting into some heated interviews recently.
Here's the ex-president of Sri Lanka on this week's @AJHeadtoHead threatening to walk out of an interview with me, in front of an audience, simply because I asked questions he didn't like:
We can do so much more to improve our health system, even in a low-resource setting.
We just need the right kind of people leading us and the right kind of administration to bring out the best in people.
Sri Lanka has so much unexplored potential.