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India’s aesculapian assistance successful the aftermath of the harm caused by cyclone Ditwah arrived successful Sri Lanka connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025), the Sri Lankan President’s bureau said successful a statement.
The supplies included precocious aesculapian instrumentality and tract hospitals. “An Indian Air Force C-17A craft carrying urgent aesculapian assistance arrived successful Sri Lanka past evening (December 2, 2025). The consignment comprised captious medicine, precocious aesculapian instrumentality and deployable tract facilities to enactment the country’s ongoing rescue and alleviation operations,” the connection said.
Santhosh Jha, Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka handed implicit the alleviation materials to Major General Tiral de Silva of the Sri Lankan Army, the connection said.
“The cargo besides includes 2 afloat equipped tract hospitals designed for accelerated deployment successful exigency zones. One of these units is scheduled to beryllium established successful Welimada to enactment ongoing humanitarian operations. In addition, India has dispatched 73 aesculapian professionals, including doctors, physicians, anaesthesiologists and different specialised personnel, to supply on-ground aesculapian enactment wherever astir needed,” the connection added.
Deaths raises to 474
Meanwhile, the decease toll continued to ascent successful Sri Lanka and reached 474 connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025), according to the latest authoritative figures from the Disaster Management Centre.
“An @IAF_MCC C-17 transport craft with a self-contained, modular tract hospital, implicit 70 aesculapian & enactment personnel, and vehicles, landed successful Colombo,” External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said successful a station connected X connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025).
The Indian Mission successful Colombo too, connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025), said that India has sent a mobile tract infirmary and implicit 70 aesculapian unit to Sri Lanka arsenic portion of its continuing humanitarian assistance pursuing the devastating floods and landslips triggered by Cyclone Ditwah.
The Indian High Commission successful a societal media station said India has sent a "rapidly deployable tract hospital" on with implicit 70 aesculapian unit to supply urgently required healthcare enactment successful disaster-affected areas.
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Citing a societal media station by PRO Defence Jammu, it said an Indian Air Force C-17 Globemaster craft airlifted the para tract hospital, on with instrumentality and 73 aesculapian unit from Agra, and landed successful Colombo connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025) evening to augment ongoing alleviation efforts.
IAF Mi-17 helicopters person besides been operating continuously, airlifting much than 8 tonnes of alleviation worldly and evacuating 65 survivors, including overseas nationals, critically sick patients and a large woman. Indian rescue teams are besides conducting operations crossed aggregate sites, the ngo said.
In Badulla connected Tuesday (December 3, 2025), a National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) squad recovered different assemblage successful an “exceptionally difficult” operation, with remains located beneath layers of compacted debris. Search efforts astatine the tract are continuing with “determination and compassion,” it said.
NDRF teams deployed successful the Sedawatta and Nadeegama areas adjacent Colombo person rescued much than 43 radical truthful far, and proceed to prevention those trapped successful floodwaters ranging betwixt 8 and 10 feet, the High Commission said successful a societal media station connected Tuesday (December 2, 2025).
Under Operation Sagar Bandhu, Indian teams are prioritising the evacuation of the astir susceptible to guarantee each beingness is brought to safety, it said.
India launched Operation Sagar Bandhu past month, a Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) initiative, to assistance Sri Lanka successful its betterment from the devastation caused by Cyclone Ditwah.
