Legal Cased Filed Against Two Hundred Fifty Eight Schools In Western Province For Maintaining Dengue Mosquito Breeding Places

During the raids carried out On last Friday(26) and Saturday(27) under the special three day Dengue Control Programme in Schools of Western Province legal cases were filed against 258 Schools for maintaining Dengue Mosquito Breeding Places according to the Ministry Of Health.

Another 2217  schools were issued notices due to maintaining school yards with risk factors might cause breading of Dengue mosquitoes.

The Officials carried our the raids had cleaned 5962 Premises which had Dengue  Mosquito Breeding grounds the Health Ministry has stated .

The programme had carried out in Colombo,Gampaha and Kaluthara  Districts belonging to the western  province.