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MSF first worked in Sri Lanka in 1986 and closed its projects in 2012.

As conflict flared up in Sri Lanka between 1986 and 2007, MSF provided support to people affected by the fighting.

MSF first worked in Sri Lanka in 1986 to assist victims of the conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. We provided medical care through mobile clinics, and supported camps for displaced people and health structures until March 2004. Nine months later, we responded to a devastating tsunami by running mobile clinics, rebuilding structures, and providing material support to displaced people until 2005.

MSF returned in 2007, providing surgery to people caught up in renewed fighting and we continued to treat people affected by the fighting until 2012.

 
Sri Lanka

Psychological trauma of the civil war in Sri Lanka

Project Update 26 Apr 2002
 
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's health service is a casualty of 20 years of war

Project Update 9 Feb 2002
 
Sri Lanka

Hospital volunteers trained in northern Sri Lanka

Project Update 7 Nov 2001
 
Sri Lanka

MSF urges respect for the safety of civilians safety caught in Sri Lanka fighting

Press Release 16 May 2000
 
Sri Lanka

MSF warns of medical emergency in northern Sri Lanka

Press Release 26 Apr 2000
 
Sri Lanka

Critical medicine shortage

Press Release 17 Apr 2000
 
Sri Lanka

MSF concerned by the critical shortage of essential medicines in northern Sri Lanka.

Press Release 17 Apr 2000
 
Sri Lanka

MSF provides emergency medical care

Project Update 28 Jan 2000