LTTE Hospital Found in Thoppigala


A photograph that confirms that surgery took place

Sri Lankan forces discovered a well secured hospital that had been used by the LTTE in area south of Narakamulla in Thoppigala on Last Tuesday. The hospital located deep inside thick vegetation has been built under a canopy of shady trees. Around the hospital is a protective concrete bunker.

The hospital is equipped with facilities to perform surgery. Equipment at the hospital suggests that seriously injured LTTE cadres had undergone surgery here.

A large number of hospital beds specially designed for patients, surgical equipment and stocks of medicines had also being recovered from the hospital. Evidence indicates that the facility had been abandoned by the LTTE in the face of advancing forces.