Ethiopian woman living with Indonesian dies of AIDS

Kapila SOMARATNE - Panadura Group Cor.

An Ethiopian woman Woldemichel Tewabech Kebede aged 42 years who lived in a house at Walana, Panadura with an Indonesian woman, died of AIDS H I V positive while she was under treatment at the Panadura base hospital, hospital authorities announced on Wednesday.

The case was reported to the Panadura Police which commenced investigations into the matter Panadura AJMO Dr Prasan Wijetunga certified that the Ethiopian woman died of Aids HIV Virus. Police investigations revealed that Sinnathamby Wanindra, a Sri Lankan Tamil who was with her in the past had also died of AIDS. He was a retired employee of the United Nations Organisation in USA.

An inquest into the body of the Ethiopian was resumed by the Panadura inquirer into sudden deaths Adikaram and postponed for further inquiry. There were no relatives to claim the body of the dead woman.

The inquirer recorded the evidence of the occupants of the house at Walana, Panadura where she lived with the Indonesian woman Rasheena, with a child attending an International School in Panadura. Dr S. Sivakumara the MOH Panadura said he had notified the death of the Ethiopian woman to the Director of Health Services Western Province.

A comprehensive inquiry would be conducted into this death as she died of Aids HIV Virus.

Panadura Police also informed the Foreign Affairs Ministry regarding the death giving all details of the Ethiopian woman.

The body of the woman is lying at the Panadura base hospital mortuary pending investigations.