Sri Lanka To Inform WHO That The Country Has Eliminated Malaria

The Ministry Of Health,Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine has decided to inform the World Health Organization[WHO] in this September that Sri Lanka has eliminated the Disease Malaria from the country and eligible to receive the WHO certification regarding it.

The Ministry will be informed on this during a regional health conference scheduled to be held in early September this year the Director General Of Health Services Dr.Palitha Mahipala has stated today[08] during a press briefing held at the Health . 

Sri Lanka has already eliminated filaria from the country and received the WHO certification last July.