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President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratungahas established a Special Human Intervention Facility to facilitate the provision of emotional support for personnel of the Armed Forces, the Police and their families aimed at coping their grief or the loss of a loved one, who have offered themselves on behalf of the nation, a media release from the Special Media Information Centre (SMIC) said today. This special human intervention facility, which comes under the aegis of Presidential Secretariat, will also facilitate the administrative procedures for these people to relive their lives, which by itself, will be a form of providing emotional support and strength. The President has established this facility under own wing as a matter of utmost national priority, to cater to those who are engaged in combat, their families, and those experience the loss of a colleague or a loved one in battle and especially those who cannot recognize the body of a loved one and those who experience severe disturbances in the for years to come and are unable to function normally in the years to come, the release said. This facility which is working in close collaboration with the Rana Viru Seva Authority and the medical resource personnel of the Sri Lanka Army, Navy, Air Force and the Police. The latter will provide the initial base for providing the human support to the target group. This unit is currently engaged in a needs assessment of those who have been affected and is calling for volunteers of all districts who have training in befriending and in providing emotional support. Volunteers and trained befrienders who have had some expedience in this sphere are requested to write to the Human Intervention facility, 12/1, Pedris Lane, Colombo 03. Pamphlets are being prepared for service personnel and their families who cannot be easily be reached. The telephone/telefax Number is 075-518156/7 e-mail-ptfhdm@pan.lk, the SMIC release said.
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