"The humanitarian catastrophe in camps of displaced persons in Sri Lanka reaches a new sad peak." said J�rgen Clemens, Malteser International desk officer for Sri Lanka. Camps overloaded with up to 200,000 people will now have to accommodate another 50,000 displaced who had still been trapped in the conflict zone in northern Sri Lanka. "People are extremely ex-hausted and in need of medical care, but our financial resources for emergency relief are far in-sufficient.", he said.
According to Clemens camps are in disastrous sanitary condition. In Vavunyia region a kitchen meant to supply food for 500 people now serves up to 2,000, reports the Malteser International expert. "Sanitary conditions and shortages of drinking water are the most severe difficulties that people have to cope with." Read more ...
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