History

Gampaha Co-operative Hospital was established on 19th August 1962 at the Government school, Courts Road with the presence of 65 and out of which 40 were the members. Thereafter it was registered under the number N.462 on 29th September 1962. Mr. A.N.D.A Abeysinghe was the first chairman of the society.

The hospital was shifted to No: 35, Queens Mary Road and opened by the chairman of Peoples Bank, Mr. Vincent Subasinghe. The inauguration speech was made by Mr. S.D Bandaranayake the Member of Parliament, Gampaha then.

Since then the following chairpersons have rendered their appreciable services to the hospital for it to be the present status.

  1. Hon. 1st Chairman - Mr. A.N.D. Abeysinghe - 1962
  2. Hon. Chairman - Mr. G.F.D. Isat Siriwardhana-1963 - 1969
  3. Hon. Chairman - Mr. Benat Gunasekara -1969 - 1975
  4. Hon. Chairman - Mr. Mapa Daniyel -1975
  5. Hon. Chairman - Mr. Rathnasinghe - 1976
  6. Hon. Chairman - Mr. Thissa Karunarathna - 1977 - 1987
  7. Hon. Chairman - Mr. L.D. Jayasinghe - 1987- 1990
  8. Hon. Chairman - Mr. P.C. Senavirathna – 1990
  9. Hon. Chairman - Mr. Sarath Wickramasinghe -1991 -1994
  10. Hon. Chairman - Mr. M.S. Perera - 1995
  11. Hon. Chairman - Mr. R.W. Stanli Rajapaksha - 1996 - 1998
  12. Hon. Chairman - Mr. Indrajith Aekanayake - 1998 - 1999
  13. Hon. Chairman - Mr. H.D. Thissa Gunawardana - 1999 - 2002
  14. Hon. Chairman - Mr. K.P. Munidasa - 2002 - 2004
  15. Hon. Chairman - Mr. I.B. Susil Kulathissa - 2003 - 2004
  16. Hon. Chairman - Mr. K.K.D.S. Dissanayake 2004

We also have to appreciate with gratitude of the service and the patronage of the board of directors and the members since the inception of the hospital to be its current status of high quality Health Care Service.


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