Artificial limbs for IDPs

Social Services Ministry Secretary Vijil Jegarajasingham yesterday said, they have arranged to provide artificial limbs to those IDPs in relief centres in the Vavuniya district, who have lost their arms and legs due to LTTE firing and shelling as they were fleeing to escape form the uncleared areas in the Vanni.

Jegarajasingham said, the first set of artificial limbs were distributed to 60 Internally Displaced Persons among them children on Sunday.

Friend In Need (FIN), a Non Governmental Organization is providing financial assistance to procure and distribute these artificial limbs to the displaced persons in Vavuniya relief centres she said.

She said "The Friend In Need staffers are presently in Vavuniya relief centres in an effort to help the physically disabled IDPs to provide them with medical assistance and artificial limbs." Read more ...