Govt reunites IDP families

Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has appointed a special team of senior Government officials to reunite Internally Displaced families, following reports that a large number of them had been separated from their families during their escapade to Vavuniya and are now in a state of psychological trauma, Health Ministry sources told the Observer Online today.

The team is now in Vavuniya collecting details of all families who were separated in an effort to reunite them and this process will be completed soon, the sources said. A ‘family-help bureau’ has also been set up to reunite those separated from their families.

The Health Ministry has also despatched a team of 207 doctors on internship to hospitals in Mannar, Poovarasankulam, Vavuniya (Teaching Hospital), Padaviya, Medawachchiya, Keppetigollawa, Anuradhapura and Kurunegala where the sick and injured among the IDPs are being treated to meet the shortage of doctors, the sources said adding that this was a sequel to a cabinet paper submitted by Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva.