Mobile camps are special outreach activities undertaken to take Sexual and Reproductive Health(SRH) and general health services to the people. They are usually held in rural areas, in pockets of urban poverty, under-served areas as well as hard to reach areas.

Though it may not be an obvious issue, the urban poor population, struggle on a daily basis with inadequate housing, a lack of basic services such as electricity and water, and extreme overcrowding that often leads to infectious disease epidemics. They do not have the capacity to afford health care that the middle class and wealthy city dwellers access but neither do they benefit from health programmes run by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or governments in the way that rural areas do. In short, they fall through the cracks of health care.

FPA Sri Lanka considers the urban poor, a key population, a target group to which we provide SRH services that includes SRH education, Family Planning services, investigations and services for Sub Fertility, men’s clinic, cancer screenings and examinations and treatment  for STI’s and HIV

For this reason, the Medical Unit recently carried out free clinic’s at Parakumba Viharaya, Ethul kotte on the 06th of May and at Visakha Vidyalaya premises on the 13th of May.