Vision 2020 Secretariat of the Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry and the College of Opthalmologists of Sri Lanka has organised a program to provide quality eye care services for over 200,000 IDPs at welfare camps in Vavuniya and Cheddikulam.
The program will be in operation until the people are relocated in their original homes, Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said.
He said that under this program a team of eye surgeons, doctors and optometrists will visit the camps on June 6. They conducted a service on May 12 covering a large number of IDPs.
They had detected around 1,500 persons with various eye defects. The specialists had referred needy patients to the Vavuniya hospital. Read more ...
Thursday, May 28, 2009
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