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Batticaloa, Disaster Management, Healthcare, Human Security

Brief Notes on Mental Health & Psychosocial Support after 2011 Batticaloa Floods

Dr. T. Gadambanathan & Ananda Galappatti The following is a brief response to queries we have received about what considerations should be made during the recovery phase of the flood disaster with…

Ananda Galapatti Ananda Galapatti on 01/21/2011
Ampara, Batticaloa, Disaster Management, Features, Healthcare, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Kandy, Kegalle, Kurunegala, Mannar, Politics and Governance, Polonnaruwa, Trincomalee

UPDATE: Google Map on Flood-affected areas in Sri Lanka

View Flood-affected areas in Sri Lanka – January 2011 in a larger map The map above identifies the main flood-affected regions, sites where relief and rescue operations have been conducted, areas prone…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/13/201101/15/2011
Ampara, Batticaloa, Disaster Management, Healthcare, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Kandy, Kegalle, Mannar, Polonnaruwa, Trincomalee

UPDATE: Situation report on flood-affected areas and a call for assistance

The Editors of have received several updates during the course of the day confirming that the situation on the ground is quite severe and we now have a humanitarian crisis in those…

Groundviews Groundviews on 01/12/201101/13/2011
Colombo, Healthcare, Media and Communications

Dementia in Sri Lanka: A conversation with Tami Tamitegama

Tami Tamitegama is the President of the Lanka Alzheimer’s Foundation. Dementia is a global and growing problem, and when juxtaposed with Sri Lanka’s ageing population, places demands on our healthcare system the…

Groundviews Groundviews on 10/12/201010/12/2010
Advocacy, Colombo, Gender, Healthcare, Human Rights, Identity

CELEBRATING PRIDE IN SRI LANKA

11th June 2010 – 11th July 2010 marks PRIDE month in Sri Lanka. Historically stemming from the watershed Stonewall riots in 1969, which broke out when police raided a gay bar in…

Equal Ground Equal Ground on 07/09/201007/09/2010
Colombo, Healthcare

The vicious cycle that is eating away Sri Lanka’s healthcare: The Sri Lanka Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC), the Ministry of Health and the Treasury

There has been a lot written about the blunders of the Ministry of Health after the death of two young children. However, even though the rubella vaccination has been secured from a…

on 11/14/200911/10/2009

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