IOM Sri Lanka will today start a ten day
mobile medical camp for tsunami-affected and low income families in
Kalutara district, 35 km south of Colombo.

The camp, which will bring free health care to
some 20,000 people, is an extension of IOM's Australian Red
Cross-funded mobile eye camp programme, organized in the south and
east of the country in collaboration with the Ministry of Health,
the Sri Lanka College of Ophthalmologists and the World

Health Organization.

The Kalutara camp, in addition to offering
sight care, treatment and spectacles, will also offer help with
hearing problems including hearing aids, dental treatment, general
medical check ups and health education on subjects including
HIV/AIDS and dengue fever prevention.

Partner agencies taking part in the camp
include the Provincial Directorate of Health Services (PDHS)
Western Province (DPDHS Kalutara/MOH Moratuwa); the National
Institute of Health Services (NHIS), Kalutara; the General Hospital
Kalutara; the Dental Institute, Maharagama; the

Epidemiological Unit of Ministry of Health (MoH); Wickramarachchi
Opticians, and the NGO, Sun Flower Village.

For further information, please contact:

Dr Qasim Sufi

IOM Colombo

Tel: +94 11 536 19 41

E-mail: "mailto:qasims@iomsrilanka.org" target="_blank" title=
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