Mothers in relief villages happy over children’s immunization programme

Internally displaced mothers living in relief villages and Welfare centres of Vavuniya have shown tremendous enthusiasm in the immunization programme for their children. This was proved in the manner in which they had taken steps to preserve the child health reports (CHR) given to their children during earlier health checkups.

The Health Ministry spokesman said that they had even gone to the extent of wrapping up the CHRs given to them at government clinics in cellophane covers so as to preserve them from the rain and the water from the Nandikadal lagoon while crossing over to government controlled areas. "These are mothers who had lost everything and now were living in IDP camps in the Vanni. Read more ...