email from our senior Dr. Susiri Weerasekera:-
Dr.
Swineetha Gunawardena our batchmate passed away. The funeral was last week.;
nee
Kumaranatunge she was chief anaesthetist GHC as she retired from govt.
service.
Always with a smile, and those bright eyes, I never saw her angry, nor her
husband SAW Gunda, as we called him.
I
worked long years with both of them, never any dissention borne of being
anaesthetist and surgeon in close confined camps. Not even a tale, except that
when she was a student, Dr. Noel Bartholemeusz offered to adopt her. Yes.
Swineetha
was the woman who kept that Colombo Anaesthetists dept working in spite of
severe constraints during those war years when she had to find staff stat to
solve effects of those frequent bomb blasts, 1980- 1990s.
She
once did avoid a major confrontation between me and another anaesthetist
without a ripple. Many such was her regular lot!
Thank
you, Swineetha!
She
coped, gently; hence not too many eulogies her way on that score.
The
seas were calm, so what?
She
had a handsome private practice we surgeons leaned on.
In
the later years she was not keen to be visited as she had to be got ready.
She
leaves a son and daughter, husband ‘SAW’ G having pre diseased her by many
years.
Our
loss.
May
she attain Nibhana.
