A twenty-member medical team, headed by Prof. Ashmini Fernando from Ragama Medical Faculty is in Vavuniya now in order to examine physical and psychological condition of LTTE affected children who had been living in Mullaittivu and Kilinochchi orphanages when terrorists were in control of those areas.
Army troops who had housed them in a Vavuniya relief village at the initial stage brought their presence to the notice of the National Children Protection Authority (NCPA).
Chairman NCPA Jagath Wellwatta has already obtained a four-storied building in Vavuniya for re-location of those children who have lost both parents following Tsunami disaster and the war.
Those children are also to be subjected to medical investigations to find out whether they had been sexually abused before they exited from previous LTTE – held areas.
A separate research is also being conducted to assess different therapeutic measures needed for their mental and physical well-being of those children with the help of medical experts. Jagath Wellwatta has reportedly added that a medical team of abut 30 medical specialists from Colombo, Ragama and Karapitiya Medical Faculties assisted by ten officials of the NCPA has been assigned to perform this task.
