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 mobile hospital moved to Chettikulam

The make shift hospital donated by the Government of India with a team of Indian medical staff has been shifted from Pulmudai to Chettikulam in order to provide a better medical service to the civilians who are temporarily housed in the relief villages, our correspondent from Vavuniya, Upul Chaminda reports.

The functions of the mobile hospital are being carried out with the full strength of the Indian Medical staff deployed here. The Government of India has also donated large volumes of medicine with the hospital to Sri Lanka. Read more ...

IDP camp for 20,000 in Pulmuddai

A large-scale camp with a capacity to accommodate more than 20,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) will be set up shortly in Pulmuddai, in an apparent move to cope with a high influx of IDPs to the area.

At present 2,300 IDPs are sheltered at Pulmuddai Sinhala Vidyalaya while 1,700 and 1,632 are housed at Al-Noor Muslim Vidyalaya and the Pulmuddai Hindu Vidyalam, respectively. Meanwhile, the Indian field hospital is to be relocated to another area once hostilities conclude, The Nation learns.

District Secretary of Trincomalee, Ret. Maj. Gen. Ranjith Silva told The Nation, that the government was ready for any eventuality.
“Despite the present security situation, we are sending 30 tonnes of food every other day to the No Fire Zone. The government is ready to face any eventuality,” Gen. Ranjith Silva said. Read more ...

Medical team for Sri Lanka

India will despatch next week a second batch of medical team to war-hit Sri Lanka to set up a treatment centre for civilians in the northeastern Vavuniya, sources in the Defence Ministry said here on Friday.

The 60-member team would replace the first batch that completes 60 days in the camp at Pulmodai in the eastern Trincomalee district. The Hindu

Sri Lanka hails Indian medical aid to war displaced

Sri Lanka has hailed neighbouring India for providing urgent healthcare assistance to thousands of civilians fleeing the island's northern war zone where the troops and the Tamil Tigers are locked in a fierce battle.

Visiting the Indian field hospital at Pulmoddai in the eastern port city of Trincomalee, senior presidential adviser and legislator Basil Rajapaksa Sunday said Sri Lankans would "never forget how India came to the assistance of civilians who were affected by LTTE atrocities".

Nearly 200,000 people have fled the war zone and come to the government-controlled areas since the beginning of this year. They have been temporarily housed at refugee camps and welfare centres in the northern Vavuniya town.

According to reports, the 62-member Indian medical team, including eight doctors, treated more than 10,000 civilians since March 12 at the field hospital, which is equipped with all modern facilities including surgery theatres. Read more ...

India provides One Billion Indian Rupees relief

India announces a grant of Indian Rs.1 billion for relief and rehabilitation for displaced Tamil civilians in the North, The Hindu reported yesterday.

Meanwhile, India extending an overwhelming humanitarian support to Sri Lanka set up an Indian funded hospital in Pulmudai and sent an additional batch of Indian doctors to Sri Lanka in March this year to provide medical aid to the displaced civilians. Read more ...