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On 26th December 2004 the earthquake occurred near Sumatra island of Indian Ocean. The coastal areas of island, mainland , natural and man made environment are affected by natural disaster is called Tsunami. Most of the population died, injured and mentally affected because of this disaster. The Prime objectives of the post-disaster migration is health care of those people who are affected the most. The Healthcare facilities for vital to avoid mortality and morbidity in the disaster affected regions. Every individual in the region is should be provided with medical care. In such a situation, this paper tries to analyse the accessibility of medical facilities in the tsunami affected regions of Nagapattinam District, Tamilnadu .This study also tries to compare high affected and less affected region among the different categories of population. The health care practices of the coastal population is also categorize different parts. The government and Private Health Care practices are also taken into consideration to study the deprived population group and to understand the nature of approaches of different Health Care practices available to them.This study collected data information from Nagapattinam district Tamilnadu. The study is on tsunami high affected area is Vadakkupoyyur and Tsunami less affected area Prathabaramapuram.The study suggests that the health care awareness program must be implemented in the tsunami affected villages. The reason behind it is that the people are needy and poor compared to other regions. Since the people affected by the natural disaster are most vulnerable both economically and socially. Hence this set of population should be provided with free medical facilities such as diagnosis of diseases treatment of chronicle diseases and mental treatments at free of cost.