Hospitals destroyed and made dysfunctional by artillery shelling
Sri Lankan military artillery shelling into border LTTE areas, over the last 10 weeks, has killed more than 300 people, injured many more, displaced more than 200,000 people, destroyed at least 5 schools, destroyed at least 8 hospitals, and made several other schools and hospitals dysfunctional. The hospitals affected are listed below.
 Adampan hospital in Mannar is one such hospital. It was rebuilt since the signing of the CFA. It has good facilities. Yet, the hospital was coming under the artillery shelling of the Sri Lankan military and for reasons of safety it was forced to relocate. It is currently functioning in a community hall in Andalkulam. The hall does not even have the very basic facilities for living let alone for a hospital. The only department that is able to function in this new location is the outpatient clinic. The hospital is not able to accommodate even urgent minor surgeries. The people whom the Adampan hospital served have also displaced. Even those who have displaced to the Madhu area are coming to this relocated hospital because the medical facilities available to them in Madhu are even worse. The outpatient clinic is seeing around 125 patients daily and these patients are undergoing many difficulties due to the poor facilities. The people, in spite of having a better hospital, have been denied the right to use it by the Sri Lankan military artillery shelling.
16 October 2006
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Europe which has a total population of 800 million is made up of 45 language based nation states. South Asia which has a total population of one billion, (1000 million) is comprised of four states. Who is preventing and therefore benefiting by limiting new nation-states in South Asia?
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