The locally manufactured BTI will be used for the first time in a pilot project tomorrow at Matakuliya and Peliyagoda to control the spread of dengue mosquitoes, Health Minister Maithripala Seirisena said today.

A bogus homeopathic practitioner who had made arrangements for an illegal child adoption is under investigations by the National Child Protection Authority (NCPA), Anoma Dissanayake Chairman of the NCPA told Daily Mirror online

 The Epidemiology Unit had warned that there was a risk of the AH1N1 virus re-emerging in Sri Lanka as the virus is currently spreading in India and that precautionary steps have been taken against it.

Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena has instructed officials to take measures to amend the Private Hospital Regulatory Act with immediate effect as the regulatory body, the Private Hospital Regulatory Council (PHRC) established under the Act has failed to bring desired results and act on errant private hospitals.

UNP MP Mohanlal Grero revealed in Parliament today that schoolchildren have been addicted to certain narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances made available to them in the form of hair gel and Ayurvedic pills.

Public health officers conducted a raid on several restaurants in the Fort area today to check on the conditions and hygiene levels in which the food was being prepared. 

The Acting Minister of Health Mahinda Amaraweera says the BTI bacteria is not the key solution to fight Dengue but instead its keeping the surroundings clean that will really help.

The Criminal Investigation Department today arrested the owner of the pharmacy which had bought tablets belonging to the health ministry, a ministry spokesperson said.

A consignment of 10,000 units of BTI to be used as a biological means of controlling dengue will arrive in Sri Lanka in the next two weeks, the Cuban Ambassador in Sri Lanka Nirisia Castro Guevara said.

Some 30,000 – 40,000 prostitutes currently operate countrywide in thousands of trafficking centers, the Health Education Bureau (HEB) told Daily Mirror online.