Japan’s ‘shock treatment’ for Sri Lanka’s Flood Victims

ECONOMYNEXT – Japan, one of the first nations to offer relief to Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah left a trail of destruction, is using shock and awe to treat survivors of the devastating floods. In the coastal town of Chilaw, hours before sunrise, men, women, and children patiently queue to enter Tokyo’s disaster medical camp, which complements the Chilaw base hospital as it recovers from the flood devastation. Grandmother Nirmala Fernando, 62, was stunned when she was greeted at the gate by Japanese staff bowing. With hands clasped together, the foreign medics offered the traditional Sinhala greeting of “ayubovan” –…

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