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| Sunday, 10 February 2002 |
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Enhancing medieal care for Vanni people The Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi hospitals will be upgraded shortly with facilities of adequate medical supplies, equipment, staff and doctors for the benefit of the residents in the uncleared Vanni areas, Minister of Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Refugees, Dr. Jayalath Jayawardene, told the Sunday Observer, last Friday. The 10-year economic embargo imposed on the uncleared areas of the Vanni, including restrictions on pharmaceutical items, was lifted on January 15, as part of the government's commitment to ease hardships faced by the people of the North and East. This facilitated the free flow of medicine to nearly 350,000 people of the Vanni, where health care services had deteriorated to a very low level during the past. Meanwhile, at a seminar held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute on January 25, under the auspices of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, prominent members of the medical profession, including Prof. Daya Somasundaram, of the Faculty of Medicine, Jaffna University, appealed for the removal of prohibitions and restrictions on medicine to the northern areas and explained the ordeals encountered by the people of those areas. |
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