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Well done President!

SEVERAL daily newspapers on November 22 brought good news to all Sri Lankans. Rich and poor - young and old.

The President has given a son to the Navy. This is most welcome news which will be loudly applauded by each and every citizen of Sri Lanka.

Yositha Rajapaksa, the second son of the President will be joining the Navy soon.

Sri Lanka have had four previous Presidents and of them three had sons. None of them had ever thought of sending their sons to join the forces then or after.

Two of them sent their children for their education to foreign schools instead of Sri Lankan schools, but never thought of enlisting them to the Army.

In other countries, it is compulsory for youths to serve the Army. Even the Royal Families will have to give their children for war-training and they will be subsequently enlisted if there is a war.

In Sri Lanka, 95 per cent of the forces and police consist of children of lower and middle class families.

It is also a known fact that two brothers of present President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Chamal and Gotabhaya served in the Police and the Army respectively for a considerable period of time in the North-East war. Let us join the President in this hour of need.

ANANDA JAYASENA
- Boralesgamuwa

Homeopathic treatment for Chikungunya

CHIKUGUNYA is a contagious fever which spreads through a mosquito bite. It is a viral disorder caused by 'alpha virus' also called as chik virus. Mosquitoes can be found all over the place.

There are several types of mosquitoes. for example: Anopheles, Culex, Aedes etc. They transmit diseases to humans through their bites. Anopheles type spreads malaria, Culex viral encephalitis, whereas Aedes spreads filaria, yellow fever, dengue, Chikungunya etc.

They all grow from lava to pupa to become adult mosquitoes. Usually all male mosquitoes feed on plant juices and they never bite humans, but all female mosquitoes are bloodsuckers.

They breed more commonly on rainy days, on artificially stagnated fresh water, i.e. water tanks, water stored flower vases filled with water, old ponds etc.

It is called the Asian tiger mosquito as it has white stripes in its black body and legs. it bites chiefly during the daytime. Symptoms: Usually symptoms differ from place to place, patient to patient depending upon the age and stamina of the sufferer.

The most common symptoms are: sudden rise in temperature above 101 F, severe pains in joints, especially knee and ankle, with restlessness, continuous fever with headache sometimes, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, swelling in joints, redness of eyes, itching and burning skin rashes, ulcers or blisters in mouth, bleeding internal or external (occassional). Generally fever takes 3 - 4 days to subside if properly treated, whereas symptoms if developed take longer to go, for example, the joints pain and swelling.

Management: Bed rest in a well-ventilated cool room until the fever subsides, sponge bath with luke warm, extra fluids to compensate dehydration (water, juices and vegetable soups), ice cap if necessary for high fever, a light diet without oil, care for bleeding tendencies.

Avoid: Coffee, soft drinks which are carbonated aereated water.

Homeopathic treatment: In Homeopathy we treat the patient (symptoms of the patient) and not the diseases.

Homeopathic medicines are usually prescribed with the onset of complaints, characteristic symptoms with respect to appetite, thirst, shivering, restless, urine, stools habits and character of the disease and its exciting cause etc. A well selected remedy quickly supports the body mechanism and clears the complaints at the earliest.

In Homeopathy, medicines are not going to act against the disease or killing bacteria or virus directly, and diagnosis with lab investigations and causative factor are less important. Patients diagnosed having Chikungunya can be easily treated by increasing the immune mechanism with Homeopathic medicines.

Homeopathic remedies make the patient more comfortable by stimulating the immune mechanism which helps their body to fight the infection, which is called the natural law of cure. Homeopathy plays the major role by increasing the resistance power.

The resistance is sought to be improved by giving no chance or recurrence due to re-infection of the same bacteria or virus. One can feel the well-being sensation while being treated with Homeopathic medicines. Consult a qualified Homeopathic doctor and take treatment at the earliest before it is too late.

DR. F. YASMINE FAZLI
- Colombo 5

Don't ignore senior citizens

SENIOR citizens have been left in the dark with the Budget. Most of them are getting blind trying to find some relief from the Budget proposals. Not a word about the elderly.

To be more precise we served in the private sector for over 25 years. We were given only our EPF and ETF benefits on our retirement. We do not get pensions.

Most of this money is put into fixed deposits. We chose the NSB which is a State Bank. But the interest we get is only 11 per cent for senior citizens.

With this money, we appear to have one big hobby seeing doctors at our age! Doctors' fees have been increased. The prices of medicines are exorbitant although the SPC gives us a mere 5 per cent discount.

We have been completely slated, although there was much talk of the former generation, working hard with a sense of patriotism. We should not forget the discipline and patriotic work by this neglected majority of this country.

The CoL too has been given to only Government servants and pensioners. Are we to wait for manna from heaven?

Afterall, we too are your fathers and mothers. Twilight has come. Will we have to live in a dark night till eternity?

IAN JAYASINHA
- Ratmalana

Expatriates: Welcome back

I have read with much interest Dr. Tilak Fernando's graphic account on Dual Nationality (DN Oct. 11) and also a further clarification by him in response to a reader's view on October 14.

I quite agree with Dr. Fernando. Why should money come into the focus in inviting sons of Lanka back when they are ready and willing?

It is because of inefficiency and short-sighted policies of our past rulers that a brain drain has taken place from our country, and what we have lost have become a total gain to many foreign countries.

One cannot understand why some people keep on harping on the free education slogan without looking at the issue in a practical sense.

In my opinion, Sri Lanka should welcome with open arms her children who were forced to leave due to numerous reasons. Who would like to leave the country, if one can be happy and contended?

We must not forget when some bring the subject of free education as a tool of defence, there are many who have gone abroad who did not get any free education in Sri Lanka, but who paid monthly school fees prior to 'Free Education' that was introduced by the Minister C. W. W. Kannangara.

DON HUBERT
- U.K. - via email

Power pirating ex-D.I.G.

FIVE hundred years before Jesus Christ was born, a Greek philosopher named Dionesius went to the Athenian market at high of the noontide with a lighted lantern with him, and when people questioned him, he said that he had come in search of an honest man.

There are various degrees of dishonesty. Bribery could be classified as Number One. Next to it comes treachery to the country by playing out its own money. The Ceylon Electricity Board belongs to the Government and one defrauding it or playing out the monies due, falls into the above category.

The 'Daily News' of November 01 carried a front page news item in bold letters captioned 'ex-D.I.G. among several held for power pirating'. This report comes from the Nuwara-Eliya correspondent.

On the previous day another Sinhala newspaper gave the same information. According to both correspondents, the said ex-D.I.G. had been fined by a Court of Law, but the name of the D.I.G. had not been divulged in both papers.

A person who held the post of D.I.G. knows what the law is. If he was not actually guilty, he would not have put in a plea of guilt to Court.

If a plea of guilt had not been submitted to Court by the accused, he would never have been fined by a Court. In that case, the case would have been fixed for trial. Hence whatever the explanation given by this D.I.G. cannot be accepted.

By this shameful act, the D.I.G. had brought discredit and disrespect to the other D.I.G.s who are now retired from the Police Service and are spending the evening of their lives.

In the interest of the Police Service and on behalf of all the D.I.G.s this errant D.I.G.s name should be published in the newspapers, after all the case is now over.

ANANDA JAYASENA
- Boralesgamuwa

Disgraceful

If what Karuna says is true, then Sri Lanka should throw Solheim out and never let him involve himself in the affairs of our country. How could he give gifts to the LTTE and in turn accept money from them to buy a house in Norway. This is disgraceful.

Sri Lanka thought Solheim was an honest negotiator. But what do we hear now?

It is left to the Government to verify these facts and prevent Solheim and even Norway getting involved in the affairs of our country.

O. MENDIS
- via email

To pay or not to pay?

THIS is in response to Kalinge Silva's lately acquired proud British passport and the benifit package he reaps from it.

From his letter, it sounds like he has achieved all he wants in life by becoming a British national.

With all that hype, he should not feel that all Sri Lankans living outside Sri Lanka think and feel the same way towards the second class citizenships acquired from foreign countries.

There are no Silvas in Sri Lanka's long list of national heroes who feel proud of their own country.

ARIYADASA YAPA
- via email

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