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[1] [2] It was bombed by the Sri Lankan airforce and the hospital was destroyed. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Human Rights Watch accused the Sri Lankan military of shelling hospitals in the Safe Zone indiscriminately with artillery and attacking them aerially beginning with the Mullaitivu General Hospital in December 2008 and including at least eight ...
Royal Air Force hospitals were British military hospitals formerly operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF) of the United Kingdom. They contained dedicated medical care facilities, at strategic locations wherever the RAF was operating, at home and abroad, to cater for in-depth military medical needs of Royal Air Force personnel.
An RAF Bristol Blenheim bombers patrol over Ceylon. Singhalese women labourers RAF flying boat station at Red Hills Lake, Ceylon. The British had occupied the coastal areas of the island since 1796, but after 1917 the colony had no regular garrison of British troops. The Ceylon Defence Force and Ceylon Navy Volunteer Reserve were mobilised and ...
The List of newspapers in Sri Lanka lists every daily and non-daily news publication currently operating in Sri Lanka. The list includes information on whether it is distributed daily or non-daily, and who publishes it.
In 1850 the British converted the hospital into a barracks. [4] They then used the building for the office of the Government Agent, who was the chief administrator of the district, until the country's independence in 1948. Old Dutch Hospital (2013) prior to its conversion. Following Sri Lanka's independence the building was used as the Galle ...
Nearly half of all deaths and about a third of disabilities in low and middle-income countries could be avoided if people had access to emergency care. In Africa the main causes of emergencies are ...
The corps was renamed once again in 1972 as the Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps when Sri Lanka became a republic. With the onset of the Sri Lankan Civil War military base hospitals were established at the Palaly Military Base and at the Panagoda Cantonment in 1985. The Directorate of Army Medical Service was established in 1985.
Halo’s land mine clearance in Sri Lanka has allowed 280,000 displaced people to return to their homelands, with locally trained staff removing more than one million pieces of ordnance that were ...