Eight Hundrad Fourty IDP'S Suffering From Chickenpox Receiving Treatment

Up to now Eight Hundrad Fourty Chickenpox Patients were identified among the IDP'S returned from LTTE held area and sends to Puwarasakulam District Hospital in the North for Treatment Ministry Of Health in Colombo announced today. According to the Ministry the spreading of the Disease further in the Camps is reduced due to the Immediate measures taken to separated these Patients from other IDP'S .

Meanwhile the Health Ministry today rejected the story published in "Tamil Net" Web stating thirteen diarrhea patients were died in the IDP Camps and added that except Chickenpox no other Epidemic Infection has been reported from the IDP Camps so far.

Ministry has already sent a Group of Virologists attached to the Medical Research Institute in Colombo and Drugs to prevent any outbreak of an Epidemic within the IDP Camps.

India To Send Fully Equipped Mobile Hospital For IDP'S In Sri Lanka

Indian Government is to send A Fifty Bed Strength Fully Equipped Mobile Hospital to Sri Lanka this evening for the use of Treating the IDP'S in the North.This Mobile Hospital which is Equipped with Medical Staff including Doctors,Nurses and Profesionalss Supplementary to Medicine(PSM) and the Modern Equipments is to transport to Pulmudai area in the North where it is going to be located from Monday.

Meanwhile Ministry Of Health today turned the Two Buildings belongs to the Sea Sand Cooperation of Pulmudai Area and the Government Cooperation at Padaviya to Hospitals for treating the IDP'S.