PTI

Colombo, Mar 7: A top Indian medical team will arrive in Sri Lanka on Monday to set up a hospital at Pulmodai in the island nation's embattled north to provide help to civilians engulfed in the war between the government forces and LTTE.

"As agreed between Governments of Sri Lanka and India, an Indian medical team will arrive in Colombo on March 9," an Indian High Commission statement said here.

The medical team will set up a hospital at Pulmodai in the island's north-east, which was once under LTTE control.

This is in order to supplement the existing medical facilities provided by the Health Ministry of the Sri Lankan government in that area, the statement said.

"They (Indian team) will provide humanitarian relief and emergency medical care to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the North," it said.

The medical team, comprising eight physicians and surgeons as well as para-medical staff and technical staff, will also carry the necessary medical equipments and medicines required by the emergency medical unit.

In addition, the team will hand over a consignment of urgently needed medicines and other supplies worth about 70 Million Sri Lankan rupees to the country's Health Ministry.

The Indian government handed over a consignment of medicines last month to its neighbour in a bid to assist the people affected by the conflict in northern Sri Lanka.