The Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena has instructed health officials to launch a number of dengue prevention and eradication programmes during this month.
A dengue eradication week has been declared from next Monday (16) while training programmes to eradicate dengue will be implemented on the 21st and 28th of this month.
Committees of the Dengue Prevention Task Force have been setup at provincial level for efficient management of the programmes.
The government has decided to set up a special department to dengue eradication efforts. The main objective of setting up a department would be to carryout dengue eradication activities countrywide throughout the year without any interruption, rather than addressing it on a periodical basis when dengue incidents rise, the Health Ministry said.
Statistics released by the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry reported 24,829 cases of dengue island wide as of today. Among them were 177 deaths.
Colombo district suffered the most with 4,057 cases followed by Gampaha district with 2,920 cases and Jaffna district with 2,535 cases. Ratnapura, Batticaloa, Kandy, and Kurunegala districts also recorded high rates of the epidemic.
The government has taken stringent measures to control the stagnant water sources that are breeding grounds of the mosquitoes.
Sri Lankan government has imposed laws and regulations and threatened the offenders with jail time to keep the environments clean to control mosquito breeding.
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