Aussie health camp in Anuradhapura

by Nimal WIJESINGHE, Anuradhapura Addi District group cor.

The Australia-Sri Lanka Medical Association has launched a program to provide healthcare facilities to the rural community in Sri Lanka.

A team of medical specialists such as paediatricians, cardiologists physicians and eye surgeons headed by the Chairman of the Association Dr. Jenisha Johnway and Coordinator Dr. Tanuja Katugampola held a health camp in Anuradhapura at Dewanampiyatissapura Niraviya, recently.

This team had visited Sri Lanka 20 times since the tsunami in 2004 to serve the rural community in various parts of the country.

Nearly 500 persons in Niraviya were examined spectacles were also presented to nearly 100 patients.

North Central Chief Minister Berty Premalal Dissanayake and Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs and Skills Development Duminda Dissanayake lauded the Yeomen, service of the doctors too.