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British Medical Journal (BMJ), an international peer reviewed medical journal presents its Group Awards to recognize pioneering individuals and organizations that have made a significant impact on healthcare.
The winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award, for the individual who has made a substantial contribution to improving health care, will be chosen by BMJ readers in a vote.
Announcing the award, the BMJ group said Professor de Silva was key in drafting more than 10 laws on child protection and was the founder chairman of Sri Lanka's National Child Protection Authority that deals with the child abuse and children's rights.
"After describing conscription of children as fighters as child abuse and suicide by proxy, he launched local and international campaigns against such use of children in war in spite of threats to his life and is now campaigning on international responsibility on such conscription, " the BMJ said.
Professor de Silva has also initiated a programme against child abuse in Pakistan and has trained doctors there and in Nepal, India, the Maldives, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Yemen. The World Health Organization published his book on child abuse for doctors in South East Asia.
The winners are to receive their awards in a ceremony in London in the spring of next year.
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Dec 30, Colombo: Professor Harendra de Silva, Professor of Paediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine, of Kelaniya University has received this year's BMJ Group Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering efforts to create awareness of child abuse in Sri Lanka and other countries.