Major public health issues in Sri Lanka: recovery of the post-conflict health system in north east Sri Lanka

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Major public health issues in Sri Lanka: recovery of the post-conflict health system in north east Sri Lanka

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2. Overview Brief History of civil conflict (CHE) and its impact (IDP) Video clip Health System in
3. Protagonists…Government of SL, LTTE (tigers) Paramilitary groups on both sides, JVP Singhalese (74%), Tamil (18%), Muslim,
4. CFA IDP move towards North, mainly Tamil Returning refugees (mainly India), increased health risks and vulnerability
5. Effects of the conflict in North East
6. Sri Lanka Internally Displaced People (IDP) conservative estimate around 800,000 to 1 million people are currently
7. Health System in the conflict affected areas
8. War and protracted conflict should be viewed as a disease 30 years ago…Alma Ata declaration embraced,
9. COMPARATIVE BASIC HEALTH INDICATORS (2000)
10. Selected Health Status Indicators 2000 Contd….
11. Disease of the System Biggest underlying disease or dis-ease is the HR issue 1:3000 PHM conflict
12. Cadre position of selected staff in the N-E Province
13. Filtering effect occurs due to constraints of unrealistic work plans, poor monitoring and feedback, little resource
14. UN – WHO, UNICEF UN – WHO, UNICEF NGO’s - Centre for health care Sri Lankan
15. Disease burden
16. Disease burden/risks Increase in the incidence (ARI) and Diarrhoeal Diseases due to inadequate shelter, damage /
17. Disease burden/risks As a result of the disruption of the health facilities and the lack of
18. Increase in the virulent form of malaria i.e. Plasmodium Falciparum infection due to interruption of vector
20. Mental Health and Psychosocial wellbeing – often taking the low priority A mental health needs assessment
21. NCD’s or Chronic Disease WHO report launched 2 weeks ago looking at Global burden of disease
22. Incidence of Cancer Jaffna district has the highest incidence of cancer in Sri Lanka [Ref: Panabokke
23. Common organs affected by cancer among those living in the Northern Province
24. WHO Framework
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Overview
Brief History of civil conflict (CHE) and its impact (IDP)
Video clip
Health

System in the conflict affected areas
Disease of the Health system
Disease burden – major risks
Recovery Plan –GOSL-WHO-donors
HBP

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Protagonists…Government of SL, LTTE (tigers)
Paramilitary groups on both sides, JVP
Singhalese (74%),

Tamil (18%), Muslim, South Indian “hill country’ tamils, ‘burgers’, Waddas
69% Buddhist, 16% Hindu, 8% Muslim, 7% Christian

65,000 deaths due to Tamil/Singhala War, riots in 1983, call for separatist state
~ 45,000 deaths mainly youths between JVP-GOSL violence 1990’s

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CFA IDP move towards North, mainly Tamil
Returning refugees (mainly India), increased

health risks and vulnerability

CFA IDP move towards North, mainly Tamil
Returning refugees (mainly India), increased health risks and vulnerability

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Effects of the conflict in North East

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Sri Lanka Internally Displaced People (IDP)
conservative estimate around 800,000 to

1 million people are currently displaced from NE
The displaced are of different categories:
have migrated or,
found asylum as refugees in other countries.
have migrated internally down south to other parts of the country where there is no conflict and are living on their own or with relatives and friends.
Shifted to within the conflict affected area -‘welfare centres’.

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Health System in the conflict affected areas

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War and protracted conflict should be viewed as a disease
30 years

ago…Alma Ata declaration embraced, SL one of the most advanced PHC systems in the developing world
Jaffna had the best IMR and child nutrition status in the country, infact it was even better than Washington DC!
Today: Nutritional survey of children under 3 years living in Jaffna in 1993:
18.9% were wasted (acutely malnourished)
31.4% were stunted (Chronically malnourished)
40% were below expected weight for age (Sivarajah, ’94)
Child soldiers and nutrition - comment by LTTE political head

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COMPARATIVE BASIC HEALTH INDICATORS (2000)

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Selected Health Status Indicators 2000 Contd….

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Disease of the System
Biggest underlying disease or dis-ease is the HR

issue
1:3000 PHM conflict zone: 1:6000/9000
1:6000 PHI conflict zone:
Push and pull factors given in the handout

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Cadre position of selected staff in the N-E Province

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Filtering effect occurs due to constraints of unrealistic work plans, poor

monitoring and feedback, little resource support, low-self esteem, lack of clear pathways on care ear progress.

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UN – WHO, UNICEF
UN – WHO, UNICEF
NGO’s - Centre for health

care

Sri Lankan Govern. MOH
Deputy Provincial Director of Health Services
Preventative/promotive: (MO’s, PHM’s, PHI’s, HV’s)
Curative: DH, PU’s, CD’s, GHC’s

Snap shot of Health System in the LTTE controlled “uncleared” areas

INGO’s – ICRC, MSF, AMDA

LTTE
‘Tamil Elam’ Health Services
‘Teelipan’ Health Centres
Rural hospital - PTK

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Disease burden

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Disease burden/risks
Increase in the incidence (ARI) and Diarrhoeal Diseases due to

inadequate shelter, damage / disruption to water and sanitation systems and in-sanitary conditions of the welfare centres where the displaced are crowded in.
The worsening of the maternal and child health status
Disability services – the marginalised of the marginalised?

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Disease burden/risks
As a result of the disruption of the health facilities

and the lack of personnel, the referral system has broken down.
The disease surveillance system that was once in place for monitoring disease outbreaks before the conflict has all but collapsed.
Health promotion often takes LOW PRIORITY in resource poor settings, reduced to IEC - promoting appropriate healthy living and behaviour patterns (via BCC methods) is very poor.
Restricted availability of medicines, equipment and laboratory and .other supplies. (HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS issue when governments block supply … but what to do?)
Health information systems poor – therefore data on leading causes of hospitalisation and deaths by districts are not reliable.
Poor sanitary and hygiene facilities/ programs for the IDPs and camps

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Increase in the virulent form of malaria i.e. Plasmodium Falciparum infection

due to interruption of vector control program. More than 50% of the reported malaria cases are from these areas.(62% in 1998, 58.4% in 1999 and 50% in 2000)

Increase in the virulent form of malaria i.e. Plasmodium Falciparum infection due to interruption of vector control program. More than 50% of the reported malaria cases are from these areas.(62% in 1998, 58.4% in 1999 and 50% in 2000)

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Mental Health and Psychosocial wellbeing – often taking the low priority
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mental health needs assessment concentrating on those living in the ‘welfare centres’ who had been suffering from the combined effects of trauma and poverty in the District of Vavuniya had shown : -
High numbers of attempted suicides, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, grief, suspicion and a sense of ‘learnt helplessness’,
A breakdown in normal social support networks,
Appalling living conditions and lack of services,
Total absence of psychosocial support services,
97% had lost their homes and property,
87% had constant feeling of insecurity
63% had suicidal thoughts,
66% had bad memories of displacement, death of a family member, witnessing people being burnt alive in their homes etc.

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NCD’s or Chronic Disease
WHO report launched 2 weeks ago looking at

Global burden of disease in DC’s shift towards Chronic Disease’s – can’t ignore
Experience with Post-Tsunami screening reveals: anemia the single biggest problem
Jaffna has highest cancer rate in the country

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Incidence of Cancer
Jaffna district has the highest incidence of cancer in

Sri Lanka
[Ref: Panabokke R G. (1984) The Geographical Pathology of Malignant tumors in Sri Lanka. Ceylon Medical Journal. 2:4;211-15.]
Incidence of cancer among the males in Jaffna district is double that of the average for Sri Lanka
Analysis by ethnic groups the incidence is
Tamils 108 per 100,000 population
Sinhalese 91 per 100,000 population
Muslims 57 per 100,000 population

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