Bleak Raya for housewife who lost husband to Dengue fever

GEORGE TOWN: The first day of Hari Raya was a bleak one for Nor Seha Mohd Salleh, 38, who lost her husband to dengue fever that day.
The housewife said Che Abdul Khalil Osman, 57, was on his way home after sending their only son to school at nearby SK Datuk Keramat.
She said, however, he was involved in an accident near their home in Kampung Dodol here and admitted to the hospital on June 21.
She said doctors there detected he was suffering from dengue fever and quickly admitted him to the intensive car unit (ICU).
"He had blood clots in his brain," she said when met at her home here yesterday.
Nor Seha said it was shocking to find out he had contracted dengue and her husband succumbed to the disease on June 25.
She said she had "no mood" to celebrate Hari Raya this year as her husband was not around anymore.
"How to celebrate? My husband is no longer around," she said with her 11-year-old son Mohd Afiq Che Abdul Khalil by her side.
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had earlier contributed some money to the family when he visited them.
He said he met Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya recently and told him there was a need to review laws to make it easier for Health Department officers to break into abandoned buildings to destroy mosquito breeding grounds.
He said Hilmi had agreed to do so, adding the current procedures were cumbersome as a police report had to be lodged first before a house could be broken into for such a purpose.
He said such powers should also be extended to the health units of the local governments to enhance measures to destroy mosquito breeding grounds.
Also present were Deputy Chief Minister I Datuk Rashid Hasnon, Penang Housing Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh, and Penang Health Committee chairman Dr Afif Bahardin.