Donation of Residence to Sri Lanka Medical Association

 

Donation of Residence to Sri Lanka Medical Association


From page 7, SLMA Newsletter, September, 2019)

The 3rd year remembrance of Sri Lanka's Pioneer Forensic Pathologist, Prof. Lakshman Salgado (1930 - 2019), was on Monday. This is an Appreciation from a 2019 SLMA Newsletter.


IN MEMORY OF DR. M S L SALGADO
Dr. Lakshman Salgado, a doyen of the medico-legal field, passed away on the 30th of August, at the ripe old age of 89. He was the Chief Judicial Medical Officer, Colombo from 1982 to 1990.
A hard task master, he expected nothing but the best from his many trainees who now adorn the field of forensic medicine. His meticulous attention to detail enabled him to solve many murders and other medico legal matters. Among these were the bomb explosion in the Parliament in 1987, Tri Star bombing in the Katunayake airport in 1986, double murder/suicide of a business couple in Moratuwa and the assassination of Mr. Vijaya Kumaranatunga.
Along with several others, he was instrumental in getting the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine (PGIM) to establish a Board of Study in Forensic Medicine and hence a course of study leading to the MD in the field. He used his personal contacts with experts abroad for the trainees to obtain overseas training in centres of excellence. He arranged short term training programmes in medico-legal work for the DMOs and MOICs of peripheral hospitals. He did his best to improve the facilities at the JMO Office on Francis Road in Colombo.
Dr. Salgado was the President of the Sri Lanka Medical Library in 1994/95, College of Forensic Pathologists in 2011 and the Indo Pacific Association of Law, Medicine and Science (INPALMS) from 1992 to 1998. He set high standards worth emulating by those who followed him.
He has been generous enough to bequeath his residence in Melbourne Avenue, Colombo 4, to the Sri Lanka Medical Association. The SLMA greatly appreciates this noble gesture.
May he attain the supreme bliss of Nibbana.
Dr. Anula Wijesundere
President, SLMA.

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