Lankan docs help US hurricane victims
A group of Sri Lankan-American doctors based in the US under the banner of the Sri Lanka Medical Association for North America (SLAMANA) have organised themselves to go to Louisiana to help in the post-hurricane work in the state of New Orleans.

A spokesman for SLAMANA said this was their way of reciprocating the massive support the US gave Sri Lanka during the post-tsunami relief operations. The group was awaiting a feedback on needs and logistics to move into Louisiana.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has thanked Sri Lanka during a news conference in Washington DC, on Friday for the token donation of US dollars 25,000.

President Chandrika Kumaratunga issued a statement expressing Sri Lanka's sympathies over the loss of life and property due to Hurricane Katrina that devastated the US gulf coast earlier this week and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has sent a letter to President George W. Bush expressing his sympathies.

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