Chief Medical Officer comments on fumigation campaign

Colombo's Chief Medical Officer of Health Pradeep Kariyawasam referring to the caption of last week's Sunday Times Page 1 picture has sent us the following response.

"I am writing with regard to the photograph on the front page of the Sunday Times with a comment, 'Colombo Municipal workers are moving in only now to fumigate areas with huge drains where thousands of killer mosquitoes were breeding'.

"This is a misleading piece of information. We carry out fumigation throughout the year, seven days a week."