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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, July 3, 2017
FORMER COLOMBO CHIEF JMO SUSPENDED
Disna Mudalige-Monday, July 3, 2017
The Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) has suspended former Colombo Chief
Judicial Medical Officer(JMO) Prof Ananda Samarasekara from medico-legal
practice for six months following a formal inquiry on removing slain
ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen’s body parts and bones.
Prof Samarasekara was the former Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officer
who performed the first postmortem examination on Thajudeen’s charred
body found in 2012. He is the Head of the Forensic Medicine Department
of SAITM. “When the second autopsy was carried out in 2015 by exhuming
Thajudeen’s body, it was found that the chest plate, trachea (windpipe)
and two long bones which had symmetrical fractures were missing.
The SLMC received an order from the Colombo JMO who carried out the
second autopsy to investigate and find out whether removal of those body
parts was done following the proper procedure or whether it accounts
for medical negligence.
The SLMC panel that conducted the inquiry for six months found Prof
Samarasekara guilty of three out of six charges,” an SLMC member told
the Daily News.
He said the SLMC findings would be informed to the court in writing on Monday.
“Prof Samarasekara’s SLMC registration has been suspended for six months with effect from last Friday.
Without SLMC registration he could not engage in private practice as well,” he stated.
However, when the Daily News contacted a legal counsel to Prof
Samarasekara, he said the disciplinary committee of the SLMC has not
found him guilty of “intentionally or negligently misplacing or losing
the bones of Thajudeen”, but has found him guilty of “failing to follow
the procedure laid down in certain documents when body parts were
removed”.
“His name has not been suspended from being a medial practitioner.
He has only been suspended from engaging in medico-legal practice for
six months. That means he cannot function as a JMO, but that does not
matter because he is retired from the public service.
He is only working at SAITM and there is nothing that prohibits him from functioning at SAITM.
He continues to be a doctor,” he said.
“We will be challenging the SLMC findings because in our opinion he
could not have been found guilty of any charge whatsoever and should
have been exonerated. We are contemplating to take legal action against
the SLMC decision,” he added.