Lifeline Print Supplement #53

These are the main stories on this week program…

• Medical assistance and nutritional requirements of Vanni IDPs
• District Updates
• Land mine clearance in the Eastern Province
• Interview with the Disaster Management Minister, Rizad Badiudeen, about the visit to Vavuniya of the Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Sir John Holmes: “He was very happy to see the arrangements of water, toilets, shelters, school and technical education for the IDPs in the relief camps in Vavuniya.”
• Trincomalee IDPs at the Sinhala Mahavidyalaya camp in Batticaloa
• Interview with Eastern Provincial Director of Health Services, Dr. E.G.Gnanakunalan, about the Vanni patients in Trincomalee General Hospital: “Medicines and tablets were provided to the injured people as soon as they arrive here. That is very important because their wounds haven’t been treated for long time.”
• Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): “Pennukku Kalvi” (“Education for women”) talks about the importance of education for young women.
• Q&As: Lifeline asks businessmen in Vavuniya how they plan to help out the recently arrived IDPs from the Vanni

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• Aid supply and ongoing displacement
• Increasing IDP school dropouts
• Unemployment among IDPs
• Interview with Mannar GA Mr. Nicholas Pillai: “We expect that people who were displaced earlier from Mannar to Kilinochchi will be returned to Mannar.”
• Radio Drama “Your stories” (Ungal Kathaikal): “Chikungunya” talks about the spread of
• Chikungunya and Dengue fever in camps.
• Q&As: Lifeline asked some of the public, business men and the drivers about their safety situation in Batticaloa district.