(March 31,Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)The Indian government has plans to expand the Pulmoddai hospital and has offered more food and medical aid to Sri Lanka. Another batch of Indian doctors too had arrived in the island last week, India’s Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon has said.
According to the BBC, India’s Foreign Secretary had made this offer at a press conference in New Delhi.
Steps had been taken to expand the Indian funded hospital in Pulmoddai and an additional batch of doctors had been sent to the hospital last week, Mr. Menon had said.
He had also said that the Indian government had already shipped more medicine and food supplies to those displaced due to the conflict.
The BBC quoted the Indian foreign secretary as saying that the supply of food to the area had decreased considerably during the past month.
Commenting on the official visit of the Indian Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary, T. K. A. Nair to the island last week, Mr. Menon had said that the Principal Secretary had focused on three major areas.
The three major issues had been to urge the Sri Lankan government to take steps towards a credible devolution and political package; to explore how India could help reconstruction in the North and East; and India’s role in humanitarian assistance.
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