The main hospital in the district is in a poor state without adequate facilities. The hospital lacks personnel and equipment, particularly X-ray machines need replacement. The mortuary in the hospital lacks refrigeration and has become a health hazard. Batticaloa town receives water only for a few hours a day. The power cut in Batticaloa District is much longer than in the rest of the country and residents say the telephone system has been neglected.
Farmers say security restrictions have led to a steep rise in the price of rice.
Military operations and limitation on fertiliser and fuel are affecting rice production. Many farmers have simply given up cultivation. In Trincomalee District over 200 Tigers launched an attack on the Army at Meegasgodella killing 29 soldiers on 1 July. The LTTE shot dead six members of a Survey Department team on 18 June in the same area. Defence sources say two days before the second attack at Meegasgodella, the Army overran three LTTE camps in Kumburupiddy jungles, north of Trincomalee town, killing 25 Tigers.