Gotabaya Rejected Allegation of Forcefully Establishing Kotelawala Medical Faculty

There was a shortage of doctors in the army. That shortage still exists. Our goal was to find a solution for this problem by establishing a new medical faculty.

Following an advice  given by  Prof. Carlo Fonseka, the decision to build the Faculty of Medicine at the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University was taken.

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa while speaking at an event held in Colombo said thus: ‘’some may raise accusations saying I forcefully established the faculty. But then Prof. Carlo Fonseka would be able to answer to those allegations against me, because it was him and other professors who gave instructions to establish the institute’’.