Twelve Thousand Three Hundrad Sixty Dengue Committes To Comabat Dengue Menace

Twelve thousand three sixty Dengue Control Committees formed in National,Provincial,District and Rural basis monitored the nationwide Dengue control programme launched by the Ministry of Health according to the Health Minister Maithreepala Sirisena.These Dengue control Committees including the Nine Provincial,25 District level committees with a single National Committee.

Meanwhile Health Ministry  lunched a programme to train Sri Lankan Doctors on how to minimize the Dengue deaths through Six local Doctors who underwent a special training on how to treat Dengue Patients in Thailand recently.

Sri Lankan Ace Spinner Murali Said Farewell To Test Cricket After Taking 800 Test Wickets

Sri Lankan Ace spinner Muththaiya Muralideren today retired from Test Cricket in grand style by taking his 800th Test Wicket in the concluded First Test against India at Galle .While Muralideren achieved a milestone of 800 Test Wickets Sri Lanka beat India in the Test by 10 wickets.

Playing his last Test innings Muralideren took Three Wickets in addition to the Five wicket haul in the first innings.Murali finished the Test Match with a Match figure of Nine Wickets for One hundred ninety one.After the Match he was honored by presenting him A Gold Coin and Gold plated elephant statue  .President Mahinda Rajapaksha too witnessed the Match in the early hours of the day.Muralideren Now took 800 Test Wickets by playing 133 Test Matches for Sri Lanka.

Two Colombo Areas Identified As Dengue Paradises

Around 15 percent of the total houses and institutions situated  in Northern and Middle Colombo areas are identified as Dengue Mosquito breeding places according to the Chief Medical Officer of

Health of Colombo Dr.Pradeep Kariyawasam.Already Colombo Public Health Department issued final warnings to 1563 houses and Institutions ordering to  clean up their premises within a week's time.Those who are not responded to this warning positively will face a legal action he stressed.
Already 302 Dengue patients were reported within the first 21 days of July and there were 2 deaths according to Dr.Kariyawasam.

Angoda Mental Health Hospital Re Named

The Ministry of Health re named the Mental Hospital of Angoda  as the National Mental Health Institute-Sri Lanka .Health Minister Maithreepala Sirisena has been initiated the new name board of the Hospital yesterday.Minister also opened the newly built Judicial Mental health rehabilitation unit of the Hospital and initiated the new course conducted for  hospital nurses on community medicine.

Addressing the gathering Health Minister said that the main cause of the majority of Mental health disorders in the country is  Politicians and the Government Officers.

Colombo Public Health Department Issued Last Warnings To Dengue Mosquito Breeders

The Public Health Department of the Colombo Urban Council today issued final warnings to 15,873 Residents and Institution Owners in Northern and Middle Colombo Areas  over keeping dengue breeding places warning that if they do not clean their surroundings and destroying these Breeding places within one weak will face legal action against it.

According to the Colombo Chief Medical Officer Dr.Pradeep Kariyawasam the health department carried out house to house and Institute inspection on Saturday to destroy dengue breeding places and seen almost every house and institution they checked are risky areas for  dengue mosquito breeding.Therefore they issued last warning for these people and they will faced a legal action if not co operate on the issue.Rotary Club organized this event.

Bacterial Toxines Suspected As The Main Cause Of The Chronical Kidney Disease Spread In Two Provinces

The medical research team conducting an investigations on the unknown chronicle kidney disease spreading in the the provinces of North Central and Uva Provinces now suspects the main cause of the disease may be the toxins released by some kind of Bacteria in the waters of these provinces.Earlier the research team says that the fluoride levels in the waters or Metals Cadmium and Aluminum might be the cause of this disease.However later it proved wrong and now the researchers are researching on their new clue according to the Nephralogist Professor Rizvy Scheriff who is a member of the WHO(World Health Organization) led research team.

Around Sixty Local Medical Researchers led by a Consultant of the WHO Dr.Shantha Mendis are involved in the research work of this unknown Kidney Disease which caused several thousand of deaths of the patients in above provinces who are mainly farmers.The Research Work expected to finished at the end of this year.

Dengue patients are in rise

The total number of Dengue patients reported so far this year passed the 20,000 mark and now stood as 20,647 patients.There were 149 dengue deaths according to the Sri Lankan Epidemiology Unit sources.

The highest number of Dengue patients were reported from the Colombo District and Gampaha and Kandy became second and third places.