Seven sex workers tested positive for STDs in Vavuniya, clients asked to consult docs

By Dinasena Ratugamage

Vavuniya police have made a public appeal to those who visited a brothel at Thekkawatte, Vavuniya, to consult doctors because all seven women arrested during a recent raid had tested positive for sexually transmitted diseases.

A senior police official said that the suspects had been tested at the Vavuniya General Hospital before being produced in court.

They had tested positive for genital herpes and gonorrhoea, the official said, urging those who obtained the services of sex workers in the Vavuniya area to have themselves tested immediately.