Other links on the project
The World Wide Web has over 120 links on the Safe Bottle Lamp Project. They are listed under the name Wijaya Godakumbura. Some of the more interesting ones are as follows:
Foreign articles:
1. Rolex Awards - inventions
http://www.rolexawards.com/special-feature/inventions/godakumbura.html
2. Rolex Awards - ‘Surgeon of the lamp'
http://www.rolexawards.com/laureates/laureate-19-godakumbura.html
3. Rolex Awards - Journal_Rolex_18_Int_GB 181k - Adobe PDF - View as HTML
Wijaya Godakumbura, who won ... Wijaya Godakumbura. is proving with the ... sick and dying in her hospital, Wijaya. Godakumbura's project is shedding a ...www.rolexawards.com/journal/pdf/n18_winter2005-art4.pdf
4. 2003 Funded Grant Projects
Information about the Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation ... Dr. Wijaya Godakumbura. National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka " ...
lindberghfoundation.org/index.php?&view=article&...&Itemid=39 - Cached
5. Rolex Awards Recognize Inventors with Simple Solutions to Critical ...
displayarticle ... Dr. Wijaya Godakumbura, a Sri Lankan surgeon, invented the safe bottle lamp, a ... his simple invention, Dr. Godakumbura says the number of ...
www.voanews.com/english/archive/2004-05/a-2004-05-27-40-1.cfm - Cached
6. From a Singapore Angle
Looking at world and local events from a Singaporean perspective. ... a safe bottle lamp, it was invented by Sri Lankan surgeon Wijaya Godakumbura. ...
singaporeangle.blogspot.com/2005/02/for-want-of-safer-lamp.html - Cached
7. Simple Lamp Saves Sri Lankan Lives - AP Online - HighBeam Research
AP Online - Simple Lamp Saves Sri Lankan Lives - From the HighBeam ... scenes in hospital burn units became all too familiar for Dr. Wijaya Godakumbura. ...
www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-23404851.html - Cached
8. Geometry -- Social Design Notes
A collection of notes on society, activism, politics and design for print, video, the Web, ... Lamp-burns, [Wijaya Godakumbura, a surgeon in Sri Lanka, ...
www.backspace.com/notes/2006/02/23/x.html - Cached
9. www.help-for-you.com/news/May2004/scripts/3a9db938.html
Dr. Wijaya Godakumbura, a Sri Lankan surgeon, invented the safe bottle lamp, a ... INSERT GODAKUMBURA ACT ... simple invention, Dr. Godakumbura says the number ...
www.help-for-you.com/news/May2004/scripts/3a9db938.html
10. Safe bottle lamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... good lamp, is a safer kerosene lamp designed by Wijaya Godakumbura of Sri Lanka. ... As surgeon Dr. Godakumbura saw many burn cases caused by kerosene lamp fires. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_bottle_lamp - Cached
11. Scoopasia – Medical Professionals who are going beyond the call of duty
Scoopasia | Print
Sri Lankan Rolex Laureate (1998), Wijaya Godakumbura, is a surgeon who has ... home-made kerosene-oil bottle lamps, Godakumbura invented an accident-proof lamp. ...
news.scoopasia.com/index.php/news/print/124 - Cached
12. ASIANOW - Asiaweek
... the past few years, Dr. Wijaya Godakumbura has been campaigning to eliminate them altogether. ... surface is burned, Godakumbura says, patients usually die " ...
www-cgi.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/99/0528/feat1.html - Cached
13. HONORING the HUMAN SPIRIT.(Awards for Enterprise given by Rolex Co ...
HONORING the HUMAN SPIRIT.(Awards for Enterprise given by Rolex Co.)(Brief ... 1998 Laureate Wijaya Godakumbura, a doctor in Sri Lanka, devised a new type of ...
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3343/is_200011/ai_n8058549
14. The following article, which gives a nice account of our project, apeared in a scientific journal, viz. ‘PUBLIC HEALTH’, the journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health. The author is Dr Y S Lau of the Oxford University.
An insight into burns in a developing country: A Sri Lankan experience
239k - Adobe PDF - View as HTML
Public Health (2006) 120, 958–965. REVIEW ARTICLE. An insight into burns in ... Wijaya. Godakumbura, who ... 9. Godakumbura W. Award winning Sri Lankan ...
users.ox.ac.uk/~some1439/Dhruve/Burns in sri lanka 06.pdf
Local articles:
15. Features | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers
The WHO has invited Consultant Surgeon Dr Wijaya Godakumbura for two consultations. ... It was founded by Sri Lankan General Surgeon, Dr. Wijaya Godakumbura...
www.dailynews.lk/2007/06/16/fea15.asp - Cached
16. The Sunday Times Plus Section
Wijaya Godakumbura, armed with the Rolex Laureate for Innovation, has returned ... Dr Godakumbura plans to use the US $ 50,000 prize money to manufacture half a ...www.sundaytimes.lk/981108/plus4.html - Cached
17. Online edition of Sunday Observer - Features
by Dr. Wijaya Godakumbura, Consultant Surgeon and President of the Safe ... a safe bottle lamp, it was invented by Sri Lankan surgeon Wijaya Godakumbura. ...
www.sundayobserver.lk/2005/03/06/fea30.html - Cached
18. Soapbox
It brought to light the travails ... .com – they should search for godakumbura' and check under Special Feature' – Inventions'. Dr. Wijaya Godakumbura, Nawala. ...
www.lmd.lk/2007/March/soap.htm
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