Notable Residents
Tissa Abeysekara the eminent film personality was a notable resident and was the only public figure to be cremated at the police grounds in Welikada where he lived.
Dr George Nelson Perera lived in Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte. He established urology as a specialty in Sri Lanka in 1955. Perera started his career as a general surgeon and returned to the country after overseas training and was appointed as the genitourinary surgeon of the General hospital Colombo (now the National Hospital of Sri Lanka). He concentrated mainly on open urological procedures and endoscopy was reserved mainly as a diagnostic procedure. As experienced by his western counterparts, he faced a fair degree of resistance from the general surgeons who shared a similar practice and did not like the idea of parting with it. It was legendary that they even went to the extent of seeking legal assistance against Dr Perera for including hydrocelectomy in his range of procedures. They were bitterly convinced at a court of law by Dr Perera that "anything hanging between the thighs in a male falls within the range of a genitourinary surgeon." His ward strength was a mere 10 beds and he had to share operating time with the general surgeons and obstetricians. Find out more about Dr G.N Perera at www.slaus.org/history/index.html.
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