Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Dr Vajira Senaratne - Cardiologist,Gold Digger,Murderer

Mrs.Nayana Rupasinghe (Former Executive director of 'The Finance Company limited') was admitted to the Durdans hospital Ltd. for a chest pain under the care of Cardiologist Dr.Mithrakumar on 29th March 2012 around 10.00 am. Dr.Mithrakumar – The consultant cardiologist advised that there is no immediate danger to her life and that she should be prepared to undergo an Angiogram, by reducing sugar levels, as she was acutely diabetic.

Thereafter a second opinion was sought from another well-known Cardiologist Dr.Stanley Amarasekara and he too confirmed that there was no immediate need to take her through further procedures on an urgent basis and advised  to stabilize her blood sugar levels over a two-week period and thereon to perform an Angiogram.

However "Maraya's" search for her precious life never ended there. She was advised by some of her friends that it may be better to obtain a further opinion from another cardiologist Dr.Vajira Senarathne – who has created a hype for himself through unscrupulous means.  He has just returned to the country on 29th morning itself after along overseas visit. The said doctor, having returned to Sri Lanka the same day and having worked without any rest at the hospital, saw Nayana  after seeing around 50 patients at Asiri Surgical Hospital.

At the medical consultation he convinced Nayana that there is a risk to her life and she should be taken through an Angiogram despite that she was not ready for any medical procedure due to high sugar level of 344 and was not fasting (had her lunch around 5 pm ).  After carrying out the Angiogram – he convinced her that she must undergo an immediate angioplasty procedure vis-à-vis open heart surgery, since he was aware that she was covered under medical insurance. He reassured the patient that he has done over 5,000 procedures and so far only one patient died. Further he himself being the supplier of "Stents" at an exorbitant price he had vested interest in taking her through an angioplasty procedure and the quality of stents used are also questionable. To make her ready for the procedure – she was given a high dose of insulin to reduce the sugar level and he just treated the patient as a piece of mechanical equipment. Soon after the said Angioplasty procedure, Nayana succumbed to death and the said doctor fail to give any explanation to date.

Opinions sought from several medical experts in the field confirmed that the procedure adopted by Dr.Vajira Senarathne in handling the case was a clear and willful deviation from the required procedures. He had omitted several mandatory prerequisites before performing such a risky and serious operation and thereby the patient had been very gravely mishandled, causing her death.  Later on it was revealed that several patients treated by him had to face the same ordeal or post procedure complications. In some situations he has used unsuitable stents for the purpose leading to internal hemorrhage as well. To recover some patients had to undergo a bypass surgery despite paying good money this money monger for his stents. That factual information will be shared in future.