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This collection contains original research articles, review articles and case reports published in local and international peer reviewed journals by the staff members of the Faculty of Medicine
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Item A Study on detainees: effects of war on health and rights(2013) Warushahennadi, J.; Perera, W.N.S.; Paranitharan, P.The recently concluded 'war' in Sri Lanka has cost thousands of lives and disabled many people. A proportion of the disabled people and some able men and women are still languishing in detention centers awaiting retribution for their suspected crimes. Since most of them are “hardcore LTTE cadres”, 'human rights' activists keep continuous vigil on them to see whether they are maltreated. Medico-legal examinations are routinely performed on them in the following occasions, immediately after taking into custody, prior to release into the community and before and after confession. A retrospective study was carried out on 50 cases by reviewing Medico Legal documents of detainees who have been referred for medico legal examination. Out of 50 cases analyzed majority (98%) of the detainees were young males with mean age of 35 ½ years and from the Northern Province. Most of them had participated in war (74%) and having consequences of war related injuries. 94 % of them were detained for more than 3 months in the detention camp and almost all of them didn't declare ill treatment during their detention. There were no convicted individuals in the sample population. There are severe effects of war injuries on detainees such as amputated extremities (4%), post traumatic epilepsy (10%) and multiple scars following shrapnel or firearm injuries (58%). They do not complain on mal treatment while in detention. However due process of trial is needed as early as possible to safeguard their rights.Item Do the print media help the medical science? An analysis of forensic related contents in newspaper articles(2012) Paranitharan, P.; Perera, W.N.S.; Ranantunge, I.D.J.; Ratnayake, W.R.A.D.T.D.General public get a considerable amount of information about medical science related topics from the media. Communicating with the public through the media can be vexing for medical professionals because they lack direct control over the final reporting1.It is the reporter's view of the information and his or her words that reach the public, rather than the scientist's or the clinician's. Moreover, there is a mismatch between the expectations of the scientist and those of the reporter. Scientists expect journalists to share their concern with scientific norms relating to the provisional nature of scientific knowledge and recognition of the collegial nature of scientific endeavour2. However sub specialty such as in forensics there are diverse concerns about published material in the print media. Issues are more or less the same in other specialties as well.Item A Maternal death due to an illegal abortion(Faculty of Medicine,University of Peradeniya, 2011) Perera, W.N.S.; Paranitharan, P.Item Sri Lankan children: are we providing a child friendly forensic service?(Faculty of Medicine,University of Peradeniya, 2011) Paranitharan, P.; Perera, W.N.S.