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Outbreak of epidemic affects North and East
Thursday, 25 February 2010 00:00
By Sarah Kellapatha and Nabeela Hussain
Jaffna, Vavuniya, Mannar and Batticaloa are some of the areas that have been worstly affected by dysentery, haemorrhagic dysentery and enteric fever during the past weeks, Dr. Anura Jayasinghe said.
Commenting on intestinal infections in Sri Lanka, Dr. Anura Jayasinghe from the Epidemiology Unit at the Health Ministry listed different types of bacteria that live in the human and animal intestines which cause diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases.
The Health Ministry highlighted the importance of hygiene among children and adults to prevent these diseases at the ?Healthy Habits for a Healthy Life? seminar held at the Health Education Bureau (HEB) on Tuesday.
Addressing the seminar, Dr. Palitha Mahipala, Deputy Director General Public Health Services said that Ayurvedic treatment was the first method of treating patients and then came the Western method of treatment.
He explained these methods taught patients what to do when they were contracted with a disease but they were never taught to prevent themselves from contracting the disease.
?If we lead our lives in a religious way, we don?t have to talk much about prevention of diseases because living religiously keeps you safe from alcohol, smoking and ensures that you have healthy habits,? stressed Dr. Mahipala.
Outbreak of epidemic affects North and East
Thursday, 25 February 2010 00:00
By Sarah Kellapatha and Nabeela Hussain
Jaffna, Vavuniya, Mannar and Batticaloa are some of the areas that have been worstly affected by dysentery, haemorrhagic dysentery and enteric fever during the past weeks, Dr. Anura Jayasinghe said.
Commenting on intestinal infections in Sri Lanka, Dr. Anura Jayasinghe from the Epidemiology Unit at the Health Ministry listed different types of bacteria that live in the human and animal intestines which cause diarrhoea and other water-borne diseases.
The Health Ministry highlighted the importance of hygiene among children and adults to prevent these diseases at the ?Healthy Habits for a Healthy Life? seminar held at the Health Education Bureau (HEB) on Tuesday.
Addressing the seminar, Dr. Palitha Mahipala, Deputy Director General Public Health Services said that Ayurvedic treatment was the first method of treating patients and then came the Western method of treatment.
He explained these methods taught patients what to do when they were contracted with a disease but they were never taught to prevent themselves from contracting the disease.
?If we lead our lives in a religious way, we don?t have to talk much about prevention of diseases because living religiously keeps you safe from alcohol, smoking and ensures that you have healthy habits,? stressed Dr. Mahipala.