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Lankendra say
They had then bundled Harsha Tilakasiri into a vehicle and had
gone straight to the Angoda mental hospital. At the hospital, a
junior doctor had admitted him and the papers had been signed
by Chandana Ranasinghe of the UDA and Lankendra Tilakasiri who
had also been asked to sign. Even at the time of admission
Harsha had been groggy after drinking. After Harsha Tilakasiri had
been admitted to Angoda, Lankendra received a call from home
wanting to know what was happening. On learning that Harsha
had been admitted to the Angoda mental hospital, their mother
and Harshas 13-year old son had become hysterical and wanted
him brought home immediately. On the day that he was admitted
to Angoda, Lankendra had stayed by his bedside. From the next
day onwards it had been Pradeep Alwis who had stayed by his
bedside.
The Sri Lanka Medical Council and also the GMOA should look into
this matter. A hospital should be a place where nothing other
than medical considerations are applied to patients. The Angoda
hospital especially is a place where as Dr Jayan Mendis says,
patients are often brought against their will. In such a place, there
should be safeguards that prevent people from being brought
there by interested parties and with connivance from within are
either declared insane or stigmatized as someone who had taken
treatment from the Angoda lunatic asylum. That there was
connivance from within the Angoda mental hospital in this case is
clear by the way a UDA official was able to issue instructions to
the hospital authorities to prevent anyone, even family members,
from seeing a patient.
What just about takes the cake is the statement made by the
police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera on this matter. He states in
the voice clip mentioned above that an individual called
A.R.P.Tilakasiri (Harshas father) had made a complaint to the
Piliyandala police on 21 November 2017 that his son Harsha
Bandara Tilakasiri had been abducted and threatened and that
the Piliyandala police had thoroughly investigated the matter.
Gunasekera said that according to this investigation the person
who is alleged to have been abducted Harsha Bandara Tilakasiri
had been admitted to ward No: 5 of the Mulleriyawa Mental
Hospital from 10.09.2016 to 18.10.2016 on account of a mental
illness and that no abduction had taken place.
We can see from the video and voice clips given above, that
Champika Ranawaka, lawyer Namal Rajapaksa and the police
spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera all seem very keen to label Harsha
Bandara Tilakasiri as a person of unsound mind by virtue of the
fact that he had received treatment at the Angoda mental
hospital. But it was Champikas subordinates that forcibly took
Harsha Tilakasiri to Angoda. The intent behind that seems
painfully apparent. The attitude of the police spokesman is not
surprising at all because this is a police that bends the law. But in
the interests of the integrity of the medical profession, the Sri
Lanka Medical Council and the GMOA should look into this matter
very carefully and impartially.
Posted by Thavam