Sri Lankan health authorities to address the shortage of doctors in Jaffna peninsula

Health authorities in northern Sri Lanka have reportedly appealed for more doctors to work in the Jaffna peninsula due to a shortage of doctors in the area even after the end of the war
The Health Ministry has said that it has agreed to transfer doctors who are presently serving in hospitals in the South and the transfers are expected to take place by November 29.

Jaffna regional director of health services Arumugam Ketheeswaran has been quoted in the BBC as saying that area hospitals currently have only 25 doctors and needed at least 100 more.

Officials have said that doctors are unwilling to go to Jaffna because it is still under heavy security even though the land route to the peninsula has now been re-opened.