Quality healthcare for IDPs

Nadira GUNATILLEKE

The death rate of the welfare villages in all five zones is same as the death rate of the entire country. This is the best indication for high quality healthcare services available for IDPs. This is confirmed by the doctors, a Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said.

He said communicable diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, typhoid and non communicable diseases such as shock, heart ailments, high blood pressure, diabetes have declined. Such diseases were high in the beginning. "Conditions have improved drastically since the Government set up welfare villages," he said.

The Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry will make special arrangements to protect IDPs' health during North East monsoon rains likely to commence shortly.