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Internal Displaced People In The North Receiving Good Care Health Ministry Says

By Emanthi Marambe

Thirty One Thousand five hundrad seventeen(31,517) Internel displaced persons(IDP’S) who returned from the rebel held areas are now reside in twelve  camps in the vavuniya district in northern sri lanka Ministry Of Health announced  to day.These people who sacrificed their lives while returning  to government held areas are given good care and health personnel including more then twenty doctors and around two hundred nurses are sent to these camps from colombo  to provide treatment for the needy ministry says.

In addition to this the full space of the vauniya and  trincomalee general hospitals are allocated for the use of  these IDP’S.the indoor patients of these hospitals were shifted to four hospitals around for this purpose health ministry official says.according to him around one thousand five hundred IDP’s already  hospitalized for  treatment.

How ever except five chickenpox patients and a malaria patient no infectious or water bourne disseases are reported from the camps they are residing he added.

Emanthi Marambe: I am Emanthi Marambe a Senior Journalist attached to the Divaina Editorial of the Upali NewsPaper Limited in Sri Lanka.I have Thirteen years of experience in Journalism and followed several Local and Foreign Media Fellowship Programmes.
I am covering Health,Social Issues and International Affairs for the Paper.
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