Tamil hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam has visited Jaffna Teaching Hospital to discuss the hospital services.

Raj Rajaratnam has long supported the Jaffna Teach Hospital and in 2006 donated an echo machine to the cardiovascular surgery unit of the hospital. 

Responding to a devastating tsunami that took the lives of over 35,000 people, Rajaratnam provided $5 million to the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) which was one of the few organisations in the North-East providing support to Tamils in the North East. The TRO established trauma clinics for survivors and helped to deliver vital aid and medical supplies. During this period, the Sri Lankan government would impose a devastating blockade on the North-East preventing medical supplies from reaching Tamil survivors and redirecting these resources to the South. The Government further denied UN officials from visiting the North-East.

Read more here: Remembering the waves - 18 years on from the tsunami

Rajaratnam's donation helped to build 400 new homes after the tsunami that killed 31,000 people in Sri Lanka. He insisted that the money be spread throughout the north,east and south and allowed for the establishment of homes for Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims.

Two years after Raj Rajaratnam's donation to the charity, the US declared the TRO as a front for the Liberational Tigers of Tamil Eelam despite continued protest from diaspora groups. Rajaratnam vehemently denied allegations that he had funded the LTTE.

The controversial hedge fund manager was arrested in 2009 in relation to insider trading. It is reported that the book "Uneven Justice", which he wrote from prison during his imprisonment, will be translated into Tamil and published in Jaffna.