Sri
Lanka banned kidney transplants for foreign nationals on 22 January 2016
following reports of an organised organ harvesting racket involving patients
and donors from neighbouring India. Health minister Rajitha Senaratne said he
ordered the immediate halt after Indian police warned Sri Lankan authorities
that some patients from India had paid donors for organs and had the
transplants carried out at private hospitals in Colombo. Courtesy: IANS
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Who is Rajitha
Senaratne?
Nambukara
Helambage Rajitha Harischandra Senaratne (known as Rajitha Senaratne) MP is the
Sri Lanka's Cabinet Minister of Health, Nutrition & Indigenous Medicine in
15th Parliament of Sri Lanka. Dr Rajitha is the Member of Parliament
representing the Kalutara District. He was former Cabinet minister of Fisheries
and Aquatic Resources Development. He
completed his primary education at Ananda College Colombo and Nalanda College,
Colombo and entered the Faculty of Dental Science, University of Peradeniya.
Graduating from Peradeniya in 1974 he became a dental practitioner in the state
sector and was soon appointed as the secretory to the Government Dental
Surgeons Assosiation (GDSA) the trade union of the dental surgeons that had
many battles with the Jayawardena Government over the Private Medical College
issue. He started his political life from the SLFP and later joined Vijaya
Kumaranatunga to established the SLMP. The dental surgeon was a vociferous
critic of the tooth for tooth policy of JVP and was a prime target during the
JVP insurrection.
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