The melodious trill of the White-rumped Shama is distinct in the stillness of the forest. The swishing of leaves and the calls of the other birds of the wild add to the serenity.
Herathhamige Swarnalatha remembers only feeling faintish and having blurred vision. When she woke up she was in hospital, her left side paralyzed and her left leg amputated.“I was at my duty point which was in a school,” says 47-year-old Swarnalatha from Oushadapitiya, in Irrattaperiyakulam, Vavuniya, when she was felled by a stroke.
