Sri Lanka
Disasters
- Sri Lanka: Floods and Landslides - May 2018
- Sri Lanka: Dengue Outbreak - Jul 2017
- Sri Lanka: Floods and Landslides - May 2017
- Sri Lanka: Drought - 2016-2017
- Tropical Cyclone Roanu - May 2016
- Sri Lanka: Floods and Landslides - May 2016
- Sri Lanka: Floods and Landslides - Sep 2015
- Sri Lanka: Floods and Landslides - Dec 2014
- Sri Lanka: Drought - Aug 2014
- Sri Lanka: Floods and Landslides - Jun 2014
Most read reports
- Situation Report - Sri Lanka 14th August 2018 at 1800hrs
- Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health: Dengue Update, 14 August 2018
- Family resettlement and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka boosted by £1 million
- Situation Report - Sri Lanka 13th August 2018 at 1800hrs
- Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health: Dengue Update, 10 August 2018
For the year 2017, 186101 and in the month of July, 2018, 34748 suspected dengue cases were reported to the Epidemiology Unit from all over the island. Latest Disease Trends,
Approximately 35.1% of dengue cases were reported from the Western province. The highest numbers of dengue cases were reported during the 29th week of 2017.
The outbreak situation in 2017 warranted extensive and regular removal of possible mosquito breeding sites from the environment, along with strengthened patient education on management of fever which resulted in a relatively low mortality.
UK funding will help nearly 600 families in the Jaffna, Killinochchi, Mullaithivu and Batticaloa districts of Sri Lanka.
Nearly 600 families resettled on newly released land in the North and East of Sri Lanka will benefit from £1 million from the UK Government to support the provision of basic infrastructure and services.
For the year 2017, 186101 and in the month of July, 2018, 33966 suspected dengue cases were reported to the Epidemiology Unit from all over the island. Latest Disease Trends,
Approximately 34.8% of dengue cases were reported from the Western province. The highest numbers of dengue cases were reported during the 29th week of 2017.
It is hard to imagine that only 14 years ago Sri Lanka was severely devastated by the tsunami, triggered by a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in the Indian Ocean.
Its waves submerged the southwestern part of Sri Lanka, killing tens of thousands and destroying the infrastructure.
But there is a lesson to be learnt here. Had Sri Lankans realised that through the destruction of a natural form of defence by chopping down the mangroves, it is unlikely they would have taken this course of action.
For the year 2017, 186101 and in the month of July, 2018, 33858 suspected dengue cases were reported to the Epidemiology Unit from all over the island. Latest Disease Trends,
Approximately 34.9% of dengue cases were reported from the Western province. The highest numbers of dengue cases were reported during the 29th week of 2017.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that his government will provide necessary facilities to the Sri Lankan refugees arriving from Tamil Nadu.
Answering to a question in Parliament on Wednesday, Wickremsinghe said Indian government has informed that 3,815 Sri Lankan refugees living in refugee camps in Tamil Nadu have expressed their willingness to come back to Sri Lanka.
He asserted that the Ministry of Resettlement is working on providing permanent land, housing, livelihood assistance and facilities to the returning families.
Description of the disaster
For the year 2017, 186101 and in the month of July, 2018, 33739 suspected dengue cases were reported to the Epidemiology Unit from all over the island. Latest Disease Trends,
Approximately 34.8% of dengue cases were reported from the Western province. The highest numbers of dengue cases were reported during the 29th week of 2017.
Dengue update
For the year 2017, 186101 and in the month of July, 2018, 33644 suspected dengue cases were reported to the Epidemiology Unit from all over the island. Latest Disease Trends,
Approximately 34.8% of dengue cases were reported from the Western province. The highest numbers of dengue cases were reported during the 29th week of 2017.
“Hearing the gates close was probably the loudest sound I’ve ever heard.”
It’s 2014. South Sudan. The world’s youngest nation is torn apart by conflict. And as usual, civilians are caught in the middle. Villages are destroyed, men are arrested, women and girls are raped. Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the violence.
Action Against Hunger remembers the humanitarian aid workers assassinated in Sri Lanka in 2006, and continues to demand justice for the murders of its staff.
