Health Ministry To Get Helicopters For Air Spraying Bacteria To Dengue Breeding Sites

Health Ministry decided to negotiate the Sri Lankan Air Force Next weak over getting Helicopters to Spray Cuban Made BTI Bacteria from AIR to the Six identified Dengue Risk Areas in Sri Lanka.Ministry will try to get the Helicopters for cheaper rate and will send the Air Ma to Cuba for training on the Spraying of the Bacteria if needed Health Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva said today.

The Report of the Cuban Epidemiologists which provided the Recommendations on how to use the Cuban Method in Sri Lanka to combat the Dengue Menace already presented to the Panal of Sri Lankan Experts and will implement the Report according to the suggestions of the Panel Minister stressed.Minister made these remarks during his Address at a Media Seminar held today at the Health Education Bureau in Colombo on Dengue Control.