South Indian actress Asin Thottumkal who is in Sri Lanka with Bollywood star Salman Khan, to shoot the movie ‘Ready’ visited Vavuniya and Jaffna general hospitals on Sunday with First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa to look into the cataract surgery conducted for people living in welfare camps.
Officials from Vavuniya and Jaffna general hospital told Daily Mirror that Asin had interacted with the cataract patients at the hospitals and also seen a cataract surgery performed on a patient in the Vavuniya hospital.
“The medical team and the equipment for the cataract surgery were flown down from India due to the assistance from the Bollywood star Salman Khan and the Health Ministry,” the official said.
Earlier Salman Khan who was in Sri Lanka for the shooting of his film ‘Ready’ provided his assistance to perform 500 cataract operations in the North and East, and the Health Ministry made all the arrangements to carry out the surgeries.
Asin has come under fire from the South Indian film industry for shooting her new movie ‘Ready’ in Sri Lanka. (Courtesy : Daily Mirror)
