Inauguration – Handing-over Ceremony

The Asian Human Rights Commission, with the collaboration of Janasansadaya, donated a Computer to assist Date-base development Programme of Judicial Medical Officers.

The necessity of a Common Data-base for all JMOs’ was felt and this idea was  initiated by Consultant JMO, Dr. Ajith Jayasena  attached to the District General Hospital, Matale,  during a workshop held under the theme of ‘Medico-Legal Management of Torture Survivors’ in which ten Consultant JMOs participated.

Most significant feature was that the Data-base is designed and created by a Medical Officer (Medico-legal), Dr. M.H.M.A. Izzath, of Dambulla Base Hospital.

As mentioned earlier, Dr. Ajith Jayasena did all the initiatives and to put this idea into a reality, they needed a Computer which was accepted by the Asian Human Rights Commission who came forward to donate a Computer worth of  LKR One Hindered Thousand.  

This Computer was handed over to the JMOs office, District General Hospital Matale by Janasansadaya on January 12, 2012 in an occasion where Medical Superintendent of District General Hospital, Matale, Dr. Arjuna Thilakaratne participated and highly appreciated the idea of creating a Data-base and the donation of a Computer to bring this idea into real practice.

Dr. M.H.M.A. Izzath presented a demonstration to explain as to how this Data-base would effectively be used to ease the task of JMOs’. He also volunteered to train all JMOs in the Island to use this Data-base efficiently.In this occasion all staff members of the JMOs’ office in the Matale District General Hospitals participated, and the Secretary of Janasansadya, Mr. Chitral Perera officially handed over the Computer to the Office of the JMO s.