by Maheen Senanayake It is with great sadness that I received the news of the passing of Sri Lanka’s iconic entrepreneur cum industrialist, Deshabandu Dr. Victor Hettigoda fondly known to the masses of this country as ‘Siddhalepa Veda Mahattaya’. A former presidential aspirant – he unsuccessfully ran for election in 2005 in the teeth of […]
In Memoriam: Sirisena Cooray by Tisaranee Gunasekara “Where has the tree gone, that locked Earth to the sky?” Philip Larkin (Going) Sirisena Cooray gave his final interview three months before his death. A Sunday Sinhala paper had carried a wildly inaccurate account of the Premadasa era. Sirisena Cooray called the editor and asked for an […]
20 December, 2020
Indigenous Medicine, Rural and Ayurveda Hospital Development and Community Health State Minister Sisira Jayakody and Hettigoda Group Managing Director Asoka Hettigoda and officials at the presentation.
Responding to a request made by the State Minister, Chairman Deshabandu Ayur Dr. Victor Hettigoda of Siddhalepa, the leader in Hela Ayurveda sector, donated 100 mattresses to the Ayurvedic Teaching Hospital, Borella recently.
An event to mark this donation was held at the Ayurvedic Teaching Hospital with the participation of Indigenous Medicine, Rural and Ayurveda Hospital Development and Community Health State Minister Sisira Jayakody (Attorneys-at-Law), Secretary to the Ministry of Indigenous Medicine Mrs. Kumari Weerasekara, Commissioner of Ayurveda Department Chathura Kumarathunga, Director of Ayurvedic Teaching Hospital, Borella Ayur Dr. Mrs. Supipi Sangamiththa and the Managing Director of Hettigoda Group Asoka Hettigoda.