Bleak Raya for wife who lost husband to dengue
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.
Nor Seha, a housewife, said her husband Che Abdul Khalil Osman, 57, was on his way home after sending their only son Mohd Afiq Che Abdul Khalil, 11, to school when he met with an accident near their home in Kampung Dodol on June 21.
While in hospital, doctors found that he was suffering from dengue fever and immediately transferred him to the intensive care unit.
“He had blood clots in his brain,” she said when met at her home yesterday.
Nor Seha said her husband died on June 25.
She said she had “no mood” to celebrate Hari Raya this year as her husband was not around anymore.
Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, who visited Nor Seha at her home, presented her with some monetary contribution.
Lim said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Hilmi Yahaya had agreed to his suggestion that there was a need to review laws to make it easier for Health Department officers to enter abandoned buildings to destroy mosquito breeding grounds.
He said the current procedures were cumbersome as a police report had to be lodged first before a house could be broken into.
He added that the health units of the local governments should also be given such powers.
Also present during the visit were Deputy Chief Minister I Datuk Rashid Hasnon, Penang Housing Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh and Penang Health Committee chairman Dr Afif Bahardin.