Sri Lanka
International Activity Report, 2009
The decades-long civil war between the Sri Lankan security forces and the separatist Tamil Tigers (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) came to an end in May 2009. During the final phase of the bitter conflict, tens of thousands of civilians were trapped on a narrow strip of beach and jungle in the northeast of the country with little or no access to healthcare.
In 2009, surgical teams worked in hospitals in the north of the country to treat those who had escaped the war zone. MSF also helped to provide clean water in government-run camps for 300,000 displaced people and provided supplementary feeding for around 10,000 undernourished people.
From mid-April till the end of May,...
03 April 2012
To help address the burden of mental illness and trauma, MSF set up a community-based programme with an emphasis on the psychosocial consequences of violence. Photo: Marco van Hal
03 August 2010
More than a year after the end of the war in Sri Lanka, people who suffered spinal injuries as a result of the conflict are struggling to start life again. We meet some of the patients at MSF’s rehabilitation unit in Pampaimadhu Hospital near Vavuniya
