Right to Health of Internally Displaced Persons - IDP SriLanka

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are not receiving dry ration since government has taken a decision to not 71 provide dry ration for new IDPs . However no evidence of proof was found to establish such government decision. Differential treatments between IDPs were also evidenced in this regard since there is no well planed machinery or scheme to provide dry ration to those who stay with their friends and relatives. Ensuring safety of food Co-ordinate with the Divisional Secretary to ensure that food supplied by local authorities and other sources are hygienically prepared before distribution. Ensure all the food supplies to the displaced are hygienically stored, prepared and distributed. Strictly monitor the preparation of food in food handling establishments. “Provisional guidelines for emergency management of public health problems of the IDPs” issued by the Epidemiological Unit of Ministry of Healthcare & Nutrition for Batticaloa Health Staff- Section 2-See Annexure VI 7.5. Nutrition status of extremely vulnerable groups The impacts of displacement are heavily felt to the women and children since they are more vulnerable to the troubles and diseases. The difficulties like loss of income earning opportunities, unstable house hold, food security, frequent displacement, low food protection, poor living conditions pave the way to deterioration of nutritional status of women and children. Following are some of the health problems posed to them. Undernutrition The prevalence of undernutrition is assessed by identifying 3 criteria namely, underweight (weight for age), stunting (height for age) and wasting (weight for height). It was observed that the status of reported undernutrition is comparatively higher in the district like Mannar, Batticaloa,Anuradhapura and Trincomalee. 71 Observed from the Visit report done by NPDS for IDPs Project, Puttalam on 18.03.2008 57
72 While National underweight average is 33.4 percent , Mannar, Batticalia and Anuradhapura are among 12 districts, where underweight 73 prevalence is more than 35 percent . Regarding stunting also the rates in Batticaloa and Mannar are higher than national average of 16.6 percent. Addressing the wasting status higher rate of wasting is reported from the districts ofAnuradhapura, Mannar, Trincomlee, Vavuniya wasting rate is 74 higher than national average (16 percent) . In addition, according to the information from Family Health Bureau, the percentage of children (1-3 years & 3-5 years) who are below 3rd centile level in Trincomalee and Batticaloa districts is comparatively higher than the national 75 percentage . In Vavuniya Protein energy malnutrition is the most prevalent nutritional problem and out of 6617, only 2952 children are tallied to normal weight and the rest, 55.4% children are suffering 76 malnutrition . Since the general status of district is such, more aggregative inference can be drawn on the conditions of IDPs in this regard. According to UNICEF Assessment data, 2007 in Batticaloa more than 5 percent of severe wasting was reported amongst IDPs. However the collecting data from IDPs was very much difficult in this regard since they do not possess those “birth cards” after the displacement. 72 UNICEF surveys (2003, 2004, 2005/6, 2006, WFP survey for Mulathivu, DHS 2000 for some districts 73 Sri Lanka Food Security Assessment, based on the Integrated Food Security & Humanitarian Phase ClassificationApproach,15-30,April,2007,WFP,Page 44 74 ibid 75 Percentage of children 1-3 years below 3rd centile- Sri Lanka-24.9,Trincomalee 34.9,Batticaloa- 36.2, Percentage of children 3-5 years below 3rd centile- Sri Lanka- 27.4,Trincomalee- 36.8,Batticaloa- 40.3 ,Source-FHB 76 SeeAnnexure VIII, Source- DPDHS Office - Vuvuniya 58
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Page 48 and 49: In Batticaloa West, the drinking wa
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