BANGALORE - When Wasana Handuwala Dewage emerged from her kidney transplant operation in a Colombo hospital in September 2021, she had considered herself lucky - like the Sinhala meaning of her first name.
The teenager, now 16, who was born with a chronic kidney disease, was excited to return to school.
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