Thusitha saman
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Environmental Health program

An another memorable day for our life regarding community medicine was began. We had a lecture on environmental  health. It was done by the PHI. It was based on waste disposal. The PHI discussed about that how this proper waste disposal improve our quality of life & how it affects our general health condition . After getting good knowledge of solid waste disposal, we went to see Karadiyana garbage dumping site.

It was one of large dumping site in srilanka. Initially land was maintained by private company & now it is maintain by government sector(waste disposal & management authority.) about 50 Staff members are working there including 30 garbage collectors .they were received 100 tones of solid garbage per day from variouths areas including Maharagama, Homagama, boralasgamuwa,kesbawa,kottawa& Moratuwa.

 

They are trying to handle garbage properly. They use specific methods to dispose the garbage to minimize environmental pollution & getting affect people. So that they have chosen the place that is  away from the town & it is a flat land. Then they put new garbage in to a dig & it fill by old garbage. They take care about reducing the population of mosquitoes & birds, other animals who are carrying garbage away from the damp. at the same time they have taken necessary steps to clean water that flows from the damp to the river. The authorities play mach attention about health condition of the workers so they provide vaccine, uniform, boots,& gloves free of charge.

Now they have planed to establish power plant & compost production in near feature. they said that they are receiving only very few complains from the neighbors due to proper management of the dump. They are doing good job to community by giving good solution to the hedge problem.

I should thank to community medicine department for giving us a good opportunity to understand different aspects of problems that are in the community.