Rapports

India has already increased the size of the Indian funded hospital in Pulmudai and sent an additional batch of doctors last week, Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon told the journalists in Delhi yesterday (30). The Indian government has already…

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) yesterday donated equipment and basic medical supplies to the Ministry of Health to treat 50,000 civilians at hospitals in the North. James R. Moore, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy,…

IDP situation as reported this week by GAs Displacement after April 2006 Number of Individuals Number of Families Location 73,654 20,149 21,590 5,995 Jaffna (displaced before Dec 2005) (displaced after Jan 2006) TBC TBC Kilinochchi TBC TBC Mullaitivu 63,023 19,667 Vavuniya 9,024 2,849 Mannar 3,829* 1,176* Trincomalee 7,958 2,097 Batticaloa 3,951 1,076 Ampara *Excluding IDP patients at Trincomalee Hospital. JAFFNA DISTRICT Situation update - The security situation remained calm across Jaffna District. The SLA continues…

Within the last two days in March, another sea freighter will sail to Mulathivu carrying 1000 metric tons of food, and arrangements have already been made, Essential Services Commissioner S. B. Divarathna revealed to www.news.lk, the government's official website. This will…

KUALA LUMPUR: MERCY Malaysia ( www.mercy.org.my) is dispatching a three-member team to Sri Lanka on March 26, 2009, to assess the medical needs of Internally Displaced Persons in the North, particularly at a hospital in Cheddikulam. The team comprises MERCY Malaysia's…

By Rishani Wijesinghe, Communications Manager, International Federation in Sri Lanka As tsunami recovery projects near completion, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society are concentrating efforts on developing a more…

The Australian Government remains gravely concerned by the worsening humanitarian situation in northern Sri Lanka where thousands of civilians remain trapped amidst fighting between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE. We welcome the close attention the United Nations is paying…

"Hundreds of children have been killed and many more injured as a result of the conflict in Sri Lanka. Thousands are now at risk because of a critical lack of food, water and medicines." "Children and their families caught in…

ICRC activities in January and February 2009 Fighting continues between Sri Lankan government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), prompting growing fears for the lives of those trapped in the conflict area. The ICRC has been bringing a…

The first harvest stock from the North reached Colombo last evening by road in nearly 22 years. Reportedly 20 trucks carried harvest from North, especially from Jaffna on A-9 Jaffna-Kandy highway from the government food stores at Navatkuli to the…