FPA Sri Lanka's Outreach Unit strives to provide quality, rights-based Sexual and Reproductive Health services to the poor, marginalised, socially excluded and underserved communities through its six Static Clinics located in Ampara, Batticaloa, Nuwareliya, Maradana, Koggala and Matara and via mobile clinics.
These groups comprise a sizable portion of the population who remain isolated with little or no access to safe and quality SRH services. Such community groups exist even in densely populated cities.
Recently free medical camps were conducted under the purview of the Maradana Service Delivery Point in Katawalamulla and Obesekarapura which saw over 100 persons visit and receive services from our trained staff.
Two segments of Key Populations that FPA Sri Lanka reaches out to are the tea plantation workers and garment factory workers. For plantation employees, they usually do not get the opportunity to interact with communities outside the estate and factory staff are mostly away from their home towns and are boarded in cheap housing facilities. Therefore this geographical isolation limits their access to healthcare and information and in turn makes them vulnerable to STI’s and unintended pregnancies.
The Nuwaraeliya SDP conducted mobile clinics in Matturatta, Labukelle and at VT Manufacturing in the Nuwaraeliya District to address such SRH needs of the community. Over 350 persons attended these clinics.