Money pours in for IDP health care

The World Health Organization has spent over 250 million rupees for the health care of the internally displaced up to date, the Health Ministry said yesterday. A spokesman of the Health Ministry said that the German and Italian governments too had donated Rs.225 million and Rs. 200 million for the health care of the internally displaced respectively.

The donations have been spent on purchasing drugs, equipment and medical facilities for the IDPs, he said. The Indian government alone provided around three hundred million rupees worth of drugs for IDP health care. They also have provided a field hospital with sixty doctors. The hospital is situated at the Chettikulam welfare camp.

The spokesman said French, German and American Medical teams are also providing health care services to the IDP’s.

Meanwhile a medical representative serving at the welfare camps, Dr. Easara Kottegoda said that donor organizations had provided over one billion rupees for IDP care. Stating the services provided by the doctors and nurses serving in welfare camps he said they had been able to control communicable diseases. Read more ...