The University of Kelaniya is a public university in Sri Lanka. Just outside the municipal limits of Colombo,in the city of Kelaniya,the university has two major institutions and seven faculties.
University Grants Commission is the body responsible for funding most of the State Universities in Sri Lanka,and operates within the frame work of the Universities Act No. 16 of 1978. A public organisation,established under the Parliament Act No 16 of 1978. Location is at No 20,Ward Place Colombo 07.
Nalanda College is a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka where provides primary and secondary education for Sri Lankan boys. The school was established by P. de S. Kularatne as an offshoot of Ananda College Colombo and was registered as a separate school on 1 November 1924.
Sri Lanka has a free and universal health care system. It scores higher than the regional average in healthcare having a high Life expectancy and a lower maternal and infant death rate than its neighbors. It is known for having one of the world's earliest known healthcare systems and has its own indigenous medicine system.
Deshabandu Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain,who has also played in English county cricket. De Silva was a key member of the Sri Lankan team that won 1996 Cricket World Cup,where he scored a match winning century in the final,that brought Sri Lanka from underdog status to present-day form. He has held various posts in Sri Lankan Cricket after his retirement in 2003. He was inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2023.
Devaka Fernando is a Sri Lankan physician and academic. He was president of the Osteoporosis Society of Sri Lanka and the Founding Professor of Medicine at the University of Sri Jayawardanapura.
Deshamanya Surendra Ramachandran,FRCP was a Sri Lankan Physician and Nephrologist. He was the founder of Sri Lankas First Dialysis Unit.
Vidya Jyothi Mohamed Hussain Rezvi Sheriff,FRCP (Lon),FRCPE (Edin),FRACP,FCCP,FSLCGP,FNASSL is a Sri Lankan academic,nephrologist and physician. He served as the director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine;senior professor of medicine;head of the Department of Clinical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine,University of Colombo. He is currently serving as the Senior Professor of Medicine at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University. He is also a consultant physician and nephrologist at National Hospital Sri Lanka. He is widely regarded as the Father of Nephrology or either hailed as Father of Modern Nephrology and Dialysis. He masterminded and pioneered kidney transplantation in Sri Lanka. He is also the founder and owner of Western Hospital.
Janaka de SilvaFRCPFNASSL is a Sri Lankan physician and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Kelaniya.
Ravindra Fernando is a Sri Lankan forensic pathologist,toxicologist,physician,author and academic. He is the current chairman of the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board of Sri Lanka.
Christopher Gunapala Uragoda FRCP,FRCP,is a Sri Lankan physician,author,folklorist,historian and conservationist
Dr Bothalage Desmond James Stanley Fernando (1930–2012) was a Sri Lankan doctor and inventor,best known for his services to General Practice in the country.
Professor Kemal Deen is a Sri Lankan academic surgeon,and a consultant in GastroIntestinal Surgery. He is the Senior Professor of Surgery at the University of Kelaniya Medical School,Sri Lanka. He is a founder professor of the Department of Surgery and previously,he held the position of the head of Department of Surgery from 1998 to 2003. His academic degrees are MBBS (Peradeniya);MD (Birmingham);MS (Colombo);FRCS (Glasgow). In 2014,he was elected as the president elect for The College of Surgeons of Sri Lanka.
Deshabandu Dr Primus Tilakaratne de Silva was a well known physician in Sri Lanka.
Carlo Fonseka was a Sri Lankan physician,academic and political activist. He was a former dean of the Faculty of Medicine,University of Kelaniya and a former president of the Sri Lanka Medical Council.
Sri Lanka competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast,Australia from April 4 to April 15,2018.
Senaka Rajapakse is a Sri Lankan academic,researcher and clinician. He is senior professor and chair of medicine,University of Colombo,Sri Lanka and the director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine,Sri Lanka.
