Kajenthini, a nurse at the Kilinochchi Hospital
(Photo: Kajenthini, a nurse at the Kilinochchi Hospital at Udayarkaddu Maha Vidyalaya, treating an injured person.)
Many are still alive today because of the tremendous work of the medical service during the final days of the war.
The displaced hospitals from Mannar were merged with other hospitals and the displaced doctors and nurses continued their work at the displaced hospitals. The crisis occurred shortly after the Kilinochchi relocation. There was already a shortage of medicine, and it was little better with places when we went from Kilinochchi to Tharmapuram. Temporary small shelters were set up for patients near the Tharmapuram hospital.
At the same time another part of the Kilinochchi Hospital was functioning at Visvamadu Maha Vidyalaya Hospital. While this was a functional hospital until the end of 2008, it was been attacked by the Sri Lankan troops again. And it was displaced to Mallavi Hospital in Moongilar, Nattangandal Hospital in Udayaaddu, Kilinochchi Hospital in Udayarkaddu, a temporary hospital in Suthanthipuram Colony, and Mullaitheevu Hospital in Vallipunam Maha Vidyalaya.
Then during the last days of the war and the displacement and relocations, the Puthumaithalan Hospital and the hospital set up at Mullivaikkal School had been displaced to a pre-school and it was operating until May 15.
During the last week of January 2009, there were a series of shelling by Sri Lankan troops in the Udayarkaddu and Suthanthrapuram areas. Most of the injured people will be taken to the Kilinochchi Hospital at Udayarkaddu Maha Vidyalaya. The doctors and nurses who immediately gave the injured people treatments should be respected. As I was in Udayarkaddu Hospital, I witnessed the attacks on the hospital, where ambulances and furniture were mostly damaged.
The doctors and nurses was treating the injured people without thinking of help themselves to be save from the attacks from the Sri Lankan military. Kajenthini, a nurse at the Kilinochchi hospital who was treating injured people, was killed in a shelling on 02.02.2009. She was helping a wounded man in front of a building when a piece of projectile strapped to her neck and she died. I am reminding that the other nurses did not stop treating the wounded people even though the nurse Kajenthini did die in front of their eyes. (Re-registration)
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