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.
1986
1986
![](/themes/custom/msf_theme/src/kss/components/image/assets/placeholder.jpg)
Psychological trauma of the civil war in Sri Lanka
![](/themes/custom/msf_theme/src/kss/components/image/assets/placeholder.jpg)
Sri Lanka's health service is a casualty of 20 years of war
![](/themes/custom/msf_theme/src/kss/components/image/assets/placeholder.jpg)
Hospital volunteers trained in northern Sri Lanka
![](/themes/custom/msf_theme/src/kss/components/image/assets/placeholder.jpg)
MSF urges respect for the safety of civilians safety caught in Sri Lanka fighting
![](/themes/custom/msf_theme/src/kss/components/image/assets/placeholder.jpg)
MSF warns of medical emergency in northern Sri Lanka
![](/themes/custom/msf_theme/src/kss/components/image/assets/placeholder.jpg)
Critical medicine shortage
![](/themes/custom/msf_theme/src/kss/components/image/assets/placeholder.jpg)
MSF concerned by the critical shortage of essential medicines in northern Sri Lanka.
![](/themes/custom/msf_theme/src/kss/components/image/assets/placeholder.jpg)