17.3.2008

Staff Sergeant R.W. Dharmasena of Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment recently volunteered to save a life of a pregnant mother by donating his blood to Point Pedro hospital, Jaffna. Responding to a SOS message published on the Tamil daily "Udyan" on 10th March , requesting to donate rare O negative blood , Sergeant Dharmasena attached to 51 division has volunteered to save the life of the mother and the unborn child.

Defence.lk special correspondent reporting from Jaffna said that the family of the pregnant mother have expressed their heart felt gratitude to the soldier as no other donator had responded to their request. Reporter further said that this is an excellent example for the cordial relationship that exists between security forces and civilians in Jaffna peninsula. Despite the LTTE propaganda campaigns to show the world that there exists an ethnic rift in the country, increasing civilian support for the security forces shows nothing other than their want uproot terrorism from their homeland, he added.

Courtesy - Sri Lanka Defence