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Lt.Col.Kowshalyan Mobile Medical Unit in its second session

Lt.Col. Kowshalyan Mobile Medical Unit visited Vavuniya North 10 June 2005 with a two day programme. The inaugural ceremony took place at the Vavuniya North Palamoddai Government Tamil Mixed School premises.

First day saw nearly 450 students from Palamoddai school, Kovilkunchukulam G.T.M.S. and Matharpannikkarkilangkulam Junior High School getting complete medical checkup including dental workshops. All these students were provided with tooth paste and brush free and encouraged to continue using brush and paste and spread good dental habits among the peasantry.

The mobile medical team that included professionally qualified medical officers and LTTE medical services personnel who visited the peasantry in their homes throughout the village and provided advisory service on health habits, well water cleaning programme and maintaining healthy environment for children to learn hygienic ways of living. These villages in Vavuniya North are in fact very much in close proximity to the General Hospital in Vavuniya, but the peasants are prevented from attending that hospital through the short paths and instead compelled to take a circuitous route crossing the military check point at Omanthai.

Lt.Col.Kowshalyan Mobile Medical Unit was formed in memory of the slain Batticaloa-Amparai Political Head and had its first session in the village of Veravil in the Mannar district. Nearly threethousand children were treated for several ailments and an extensive dental workshop was conducted. It was observed generally that the incidence of dental diseases was very common, covering almost sixty percent of the children. Tooth paste and brushes were distributed free to all the children and extensive propaganda done among the peasantry for good dental habits. Almost all the wells in the surrounding villages were chlorinated by the team in addition to conducting house to house health education programmes.

A special feature of this mobile service was to include a mobile unit of the Rural Banking system under TEDOR which entertains small term loan applications from the peasantry and provides loans on the spot. It is planned now to extend these services to more interior and remote villages. The next in the list is the village of Nedunkerny which has very many interior hamlets that lack in proper transport facilities.

12 June 2005

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