Sri Lanka is malaria free since October 2012, and will get malaria free certification from WHO in September, Dr. Palitha Mahipala says.
Sri Lanka has steadily reduced the number of malaria cases and had applied for World Health Organization (WHO) certification on malaria-free status last April.
Dr. Kapila Jayaratne , National Program Manager of Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Surveillance of the Family Health Bureau, earlier said that Sri Lanka had reduced malaria cases from over 400,000 in 1991 to zero cases by November 2012, sustaining this achievement to date in spite of the nearly three decades of conflict between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels.
He added that Sri Lanka would be celebrating the fourth consecutive year of no malaria but there are high risk groups which pose a threat to the island nation, the government information department reported.
