Conditions in welfare villages excellent - Alok Prasad

"The conditions in relief villages in Sri Lanka are excellent compared to other countries and the facilities provided by the Sri Lankan Government to the people in relief villages are praiseworthy", said H.E Alok Prasad, Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka addressing a gathering in Colombo recently.

"Such the standard of these villages are outstanding and excellent", High Commissioner Alok Prasad was further quoted as saying at the event held in appreciation of the services provided by the Indian medical team.

The Indian medical team was in the island to uplift the health facilities of the civilians liberated from the terrorists. Read more ...

Indian doctors tenure in Lanka extended

The tenure of a group of Indian doctors working among the displaced Tamils in refugee camps has been extended by two months.

Indian doctors, mostly from the army’s medical corp, have been working among refugees since the beginning of March, more than two months the war between the LTTE and the Lankan army was over.

Currently, the doctors run a field hospital in a camp in Vauniya where the largest almost 2.5 lakh of the 2.83 lakh refugees were housed. This was the third extension granted to the field hospital unit.

"The field hospital unit has a 60-member medical team comprising surgeons, pediatrician, medical specialist and lady medical officers. The team so far has already treated over 21,000 internally displaced Tamil civilians including cases of gunshot wounds, trauma, head injuries and those related to general surgery and orthopedics at Manikfarms camp at Vavuniya,’’ the Indian defence ministry said on Sunday. Read more ...

Indian Medical team starts Phase-II services in Manik Farm Zone-1

The Indian Medical team, based till recently in Pulmoddai, last week relocated its Emergency Medical Unit and Field Hospital to Zone-1 of the IDP settlement in the Manik Farm area.

The team, comprising 8 doctors and 54 running para-medical and technical staff, has already treated over 2,000 patients in Zone-1, which houses over 45,000 IDPs. Most of the services of the hospital, including a self-contained dispensary, laboratory, ultrasound and radio-diagnostic facilities, are fully functional. The hospital has already carried out nearly 70 minor surgical procedures and over 500 laboratory investigations. The hospital is equipped with a fully functional operating theatre and has also started admitting day-care patients. Read more ...

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 ...