Preventing severe injuries caused by home-made lamps
For more than a decade, a resolute surgeon has battled apathy and ignorance to save people from disfigurement and death by fire in Sri-Lanka.
"Where is the sense in preventing disease if we do not also seek to prevent injury that is equally destructive of people’s lives?”
Wijaya Godakumbura, who won a Rolex Award in 1998, has a simple solution to a devastating problem.
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Dr Wijaya Godakumbura
Safe Bottle Lamp Foundation
220 Sri Jayawardanapura Mw.
Rajagiriya
Sri LankaTel: + 94 11 286 4847
safelam@sltnet.lk
