All measures taken to treat sick IDPs

Nadira GUNATILLEKE

The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry has taken all steps to provide medical treatment and free healthcare facilities for people escaping from the LTTE and arriving from Pudumathalam. Essential life saving drugs, medical equipment, ambulances, doctors and staff have already been sent, there, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said.

He said immediate steps were taken by Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva under the instructions of President Mahinda Rajapaksa after a special discussion held on Tuesday evening.

The patients who need special care will be transported to Colombo National Hospital and other state hospitals located in Colombo to provide special medical treatment.

This procedure has been in operation from the beginning but since the recent past the number of patients who need special care have been increased due to LTTE suicide bomb attacks and the increasing number of people arriving from LTTE clutches.

According to the spokesman all human resources and other requirements have already been sent to the North.