President Kumaratunga eventually had to scrap P-TOMS, which led to widespread criticism that sufficient aid was not reaching the north and east of the country.
庫馬拉通加總統（Kumaratunga）最後撕毀P-TOMS，因此受到廣泛批評，而這份充足的援助也因此未到國家北部與東部的區域。