Maiya Gunasekara
Maithri "Maiya" Gunasekera, FRCS, FICS is a Sri Lankan surgeon and reputed rugby personality. He is a former President of the Sri Lankan Rugby Football Union (SLRFU) and a former Sri Lanka Rugby Captain.[1]
He is an amazing surgeon at Nawaloka Hospital, Colombo which he has made as his second home and spends nearly 12 hrs a day at this hospital. Not only being amazing at his surgeries, which result in absolutely no complications, he is always jovial during his surgeries making his patients and staff around be at ease and comfortable. Never goes by a day when you don't laugh inside the theatre to Dr. Maiya's jokes!
Educated at Royal College Colombo where he captained the first XV Rugby team, he entered the Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo where he studied medicine and captaining the Rugby team, graduating with a MBBS degree. He went on to gain a Master of Surgery degree from the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Currently he is a Consultant Surgeon at Nawaloka Hospital, Colombo.[2]
Maiya served as President of the Sri Lanka Rugby Football Union in 1998/1999, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rugby Selection Committee, coach to the Sri Lanka Rugby Team in 1993-1994 and chairman of the National Sports Council[3]
Maiya is the grandson of the late aristocrat and philanthropist Gate Mudaliar L. M. W. Senanayake who, among other things, built Senanayake Aramaya.