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Sri Lanka
International staff: 13 MSF began working in Sri Lanka in 1986 After 19 years of war between the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government, a ceasefire was concluded in February 2002. As the health system is slowly being reestablished in the north and east, which bore the brunt of the war, health personnel are returning to these areas to resume work. Consequently, MSF has closed projects providing medical care and surgery for victims of the civil war in Batticaloa, Jaffna, Madhu, Mallavi, Point Pedro and Trincomalee. MSF continues support to the gynecology department at the hospital in Puthukkudiyiruppu and performs clinical monitoring of health staff and patients in mother-and-child health clinics in the area. In Vavuniya, MSF provides community-based psychosocial support for displaced people. MSF continues to lobby the government and implementing agencies to improve living conditions in camps for the displaced. |
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