Indian field hospital shifted to Menik Farm

Indian Government has sent a new set of doctors along with 27 tonnes of medicines worth more than Rs 3 billion, Ministry of Healthcare said. This is the second medical team which has been sent by the Indian Government to treat the IDPs.

The Nation learns that in the latest Indian medical team there are 27 members including eight doctors along with a surgeon, physician and a anaesthetist, “Not that we are not having local doctors but the situation is such that more medical teams are welcome by our Ministry as we have to provide healthcare to more than 300,000 IDPs,” the Ministry source added.

He also said that the Indian hospital unit which was in Pulmudai treating injured IDPs evacuated by the ICRC from the NFZ was relocated to Menik Farm near Vavuniya early this week since a considerable number of IDPs require medical care there.
“Shelter material, worth Rs.15 crore, will shortly be dispatched to the country by India. India’s relief assistance has so far included food, clothing, medicines and other essential supplies,” he said while adding that since November 2008, India has distributed 170,000 family relief packs of dry rations, personal hygiene items, clothes, utensils and water purification tablets to the IDPs. Read more ...