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Indian medicines for Kilinochchi hospital

V.S. Sambandan

The town has suffered extensively in the heavy rain in the last few days

COLOMBO: India on Wednesday donated "urgently required medicines" to Sri Lanka for use at a hospital in Kilinochchi district. The district had been under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for the past seven years.

India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Nirupama Rao handed over the medicines to Sri Lankan Director-General of Health Services H.A.P. Kahandaliyanage at a function held at the High Commission.

The medicines, given for "use at the Kilinochchi District Hospital," will "help alleviate a current shortage at the hospital, benefiting the people living in Kilinochchi district," an Indian High Commission release said.

V. Jeganathan, Consultant, North-East Healthcare Development, and T. Sathiyamoorthy, Deputy Provincial, Director of Health Services, Kilinochchi, were present.

Kilinochchi has suffered extensively in the heavy rain in the last few days.

The move symbolises India's second high profile engagement with the civilians living in rebel-held Sri Lanka since the pullout of the IPKF in 1990.

Earlier, India handed over relief items to an NGO for distribution to the civilians in the LTTE controlled areas, immediately after the December 2004 tsunami. In 2003, India donated a state-of-the-art CT scanner to the Jaffna Teaching Hospital, which is under Government control.

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