Dengue Fever death toll in the country has risen up to 140 with six people dead within the 24 hours ending at 6.00 PM on Thursday the 18th instant. 10,417 people have been affected by this deadly disease according to the Health Ministry.
Gampaha district tops the list of Dengue casualties with 25 deaths followed by Kandy district with 24 and Colombo with 13 deaths. The disease is continuing to spread amidst various actions taken by the Ministry of Health.
According to the Health officials in Batticaloa, there are 317 people identified as dengue victims in the district with six people dead.
War Has Made 49,000 Widows in Eastern Province
“The three decades of war in Sri Lanka has made 49,000 women as widows in the Eastern Province” said Eastern Provincial Council Health Minister M.L.A.M. Hisbullah at a meeting held recently in Kattankudy.
“There are 25,000 widows in the Batticaloa district at present, out of them 12,000 women lost their husbands in the war during the recent past” the Health Minister said further. He said that the Provincial Council collected all these information.
Continuing his speech the minister said that the standard of living of these widows should be uplifted and be encouraged to improve their economic condition. ‘Self employed women in India have improved a lot and contributed towards the development of India. The same way the widows here too should be made to improve their economic status and develop the country’ he said.
Chief Minister’s Secretary Joins the Government Party
With the ending of the one year contract as Secretary to the Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan (TMVP) of the Eastern Provincial Council, yesterday, the former Secretary Mamangarajah has joined the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). He is to meet the Deputy President and the Eastern Province SLFP organizer, Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan today to obtain his official membership with the SLFP.
DIG To Meet Traders, Jameathul Ulema and the Muslim Community of Kattankudy
The Batticaloa Deputy Inspector General of Police Edison Gunatileke is to meet the traders, Jameathul Ulema and the Muslim community of Kattankudy on Friday the 19th instant. It is learnt he is to discuss about the growing use of drugs, intoxicants and the increasing habit of smoking cigarettes among the youths under the age of 18 years.
He is also to discuss about youths using mobile phones for immoral acts such as viewing pornography films. It is learnt illegal weapons in the possession of a few people in Kattandy will also to be surrendered to the DIG on this occasion.
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