All patients and the medical staff of Pudukkudyirippu Government Hospital have now been shifted to a safer location north of Pudukkudyrippu through the mediation of ICRC.

According to Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition there are now no hospitals functioning in uncleared areas in Vanni.

In a letter addressed to ICRC Head of Mission in Colombo, the Secretary to the Ministry requested ICRC to transfer these patients and medical staff to District General Hospital in Vavuniya without keeping them any further at Puthumattalam.

The Government and the security forces have made safe passage available for such transfer and the Government would take every effort to assure the patients so transferred, the best possible care available within the facilities available at Vavuniya.