BUT REV. JAYASEKERA FAILED TO CALL PARAMEDICS
FOR VENERABLE SOMA IN RUSSIA
In one of the last pictures taken in Russia the late Venerable Gangodawila Soma, whose untimely death still surrounds controversy, is seen in the center. On his right is seen Rupasiri Perera, the President of a Moscow Buddhist Society and a Sri Lankan student Hemantha Sirisena of St. Petersburg is seen on his left. Both of them visited him in the sanatorium and joined him in the daily walk recommended by the doctors for the heart patient on this day , Rupasiri Perera claimed. The late thero was cheerful and confident until the last known moment, Perera also claimed in an unpublished article written in Sinhalese, a copy of which this correspondent obtained. The photo was taken by a stranger who used Sirisena’s camera to take the picture on their request. The picture was taken on a cold winter day in front of the Regina sanitorium, Perera said. (caption by Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angeles)
(By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles)
The late Venerable Gangodawila Soma Thero suffered severe chest pains just before his plane touched Moscow airport and then during his immediate second flight from Moscow to St. Petersburg and neither at the Moscow airport nor at the St. Petersburg airport , his host Rev. Shanti Pushpakumara Jayasekera quickly responded by calling paramedics or immediately transporting him to a nearby hospital, Moscow’s Sri Lankan Buddhist Association President revealed. According to what was reportedly told to Rupasiri Perera by the late monk, instead of a hospital the late monk was transported in a car to a house, which he called a temple (pansala) and the paramedics were called when the late Thero demanded for a an ambulance. The late Thero reportedly told Rupasiri Perera that the “doctors” who came in the ambulance were amazed that he was still alive as his condition was so bad.
When Moscow’s Buddhist Association President Rupasiri Perera told the late Gangodawila Soma Thero in a St. Petersburg sanatorium that as Rev. Shanti Pushpakumara Jayasekera who invited the late monk was disliked by many due to his past and those Sri Lankans would like him to move to a Moscow hospital for a surgery by the most eminent surgeons there the late Thero shrugged away the suggestion and said compassionately , “Who in this world had not committed faults in the past.?”
During the visit Dr. Karunaratne also thoroughly examined the patient.
The late Thero said that the doctors would decide on the day of the second surgery , December 8.
Rupasiri Perera said when they left Venerable Soma that day he was cheerful and confident.
He said when he phoned up Sirisena , December 12, to inform him about the sudden demise of Venerable Soma he was shocked as even on the previous day he was phoning up to give pin numbers of a phone card. . To thank him , he said the greatful monk called him twice and he sounded alright. (EOM).
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