Health Ministry To Conduct A Two Day Filaria Eradication Programme In 11 MOH Areas Attached To The Galle District From Tomorrow(03)

The Ministry Of Health,Nutrition and Indeginous Medicine has decided  to conduct a Special Filaria Eradication Programme in 11 MOH(Medical Officer Of Health)areas attached to Galle District(In Southern Province) on tomorrow(03) and the day after(04) as a large number of Filaria patients have been reported from these areas during last year and this year According to the Ministry.

This is possibly the last Filaria Control Programme to be held in Sri Lanka as the World Health Organization has announced Sri Lanka as a country free from Filaria on 21st of July this year.

Accordingly the Health Officials are due to visit the houses in 11 MOH Areas namely Akmeemana,Ambalangoda,BopePoddala,Balapitiya,Gonapinuwala,Habaraduwa,Hikkaduwa,Imaduwa,Induruwa,Rathgama
and Galle on tomorrow and the day after and ditribute the two medicines prescribed for Filaria ,"Albendazole" and "Dyethyl Carbamacin Citrate "among the residents .

A volunteers as well as the students attached to National Health Institute,Medical Faculy and Nursing Faculty in Colombo along with the staff attached to Filaria Control Units in Colombo are due to assist the Health Officialls for this programme.

During the last year 46 Filaria Patients have been reported from the 11 MOH areas mentioned above attached to Galle District  it has been reported.