Akkarayan Hospital statistics

[TamilNet, Sunday, 12 April 1998, 23:59 GMT]
23 people died in the Akkarayan Hospital in the Vanni last month, according to a report released recently by the Hospital authorities. 24,800 patients were treated in the OPD and 1033 were admitted to the wards in March, the report said.

Among the 24,800 patients who were treated in the OPD, 6258 were treated for Malaria, 412 for Typhoid and 32 for rabies the report said.

126 births were also recorded in the hospital last month.

Meanwhile government officers in the areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers in the Vanni who receive their monthly salary as checks are unable to realise them in government banks due to shortage of cash in the banks, said sources.