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What did Kataragama Mahasen of the Yaksha tribe, as legend would have it, who strode this land 25,000 years ago and showed off his prowess during a sura-aura battle, Ravana’s grandfather Pulathisi, Kuveni, Acharya Pandula, Parakrama Bahu I, Dutugemunu and the Dasa Maha Yodayas, Vijaya Bahu I, Seethawaka Rajasinghe, Leuke Disawa, Meegasteene Adikaram and Wickremasinghe Mudliyar have in common?

Hope for head-injury victims

Two thousand men, women and children die of head injuries at the National Hospital in Colombo each year. The statistics are shocking – 45,000 people brought to the OPD of the National Hospital with head injuries each year with 10,000 of them needing admission. Across the country, about 60,000 are admitted to hospitals with head injuries or neuro-trauma, as doctors would call it.

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