Right to Health of Internally Displaced Persons - IDP SriLanka

are Functioning only as OPDs and it was also reported that the Adampan
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DH was relocated to Vellankaulm in Manthai West due to shelling . RH
Chilavaturai is closed and CDs in Periyamadu, Periyapandivrichchan,
Thirukeetheswaram, Marichukkaddy and Iranaiiluppaikulam are not
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functioning from 2003 .
Puttalam
Puttalam district covers 2,882 sq km of land and 812,601 numbers of
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people are living there and among them, 61,274 are IDPs (7.5% 0f
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district population) . There are 40 health institutions operating in the
district and all of them come under the supervision of North Western
Provincial Council. There are more than 70,000 IDPs relocated in
Puttalam and they are relocated mainly in the Puttalam,
Wanathawilluwa, Kalpitiya and Mundal DS divisions. There are 5
Central Dispensaries functioning in 5 RLVs in Puttalam district, under
the supervision of Mannar DPDHS.Among the other GH and BHs in the
district, IDPs have easy access to the Puttalam BH comparatively.
Puttalam BH encompasses 40 doctors, 90 nurses and 14 midwives and its
bed strength is 344. According to DMO this amount of staff is
insufficient to treat such large amount of host communities and IDPs.
Due these scarce resources, both IDP community and host communities
have to face big competition in fulfilling their health needs.
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Source- relief web - http://www.reliefweb.int/ ,30 November 2007
Www.health.gov.lk/beds%20recata2006.xls
DPDHS-Puttalam
SeeAnnexure I for IDPs population in each district.
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