Up to now Eight Hundrad Fourty Chickenpox Patients were identified among the IDP’S returned from LTTE held area and sends to Puwarasakulam District Hospital in the North for Treatment Ministry Of Health in Colombo announced today. According to the Ministry the spreading of the Disease further in the Camps is reduced due to the Immediate measures taken to separated these Patients from other IDP’S .
Meanwhile the Health Ministry today rejected the story published in "Tamil Net" Web stating thirteen diarrhea patients were died in the IDP Camps and added that except Chickenpox no other Epidemic Infection has been reported from the IDP Camps so far.
Ministry has already sent a Group of Virologists attached to the Medical Research Institute in Colombo and Drugs to prevent any outbreak of an Epidemic within the IDP Camps.