Managing Director of GlaxoSmithKline Sachi Thomas said, "We as a healthcare company aim to promote health and wellbeing in the country. Dengue has affected Sri Lanka for many years and today, it has reached epidemic proportions. However a single entity cannot achieve this ambitious goal, we are proud to partner with the Colombo Municipality and Rotary District 3220 - Sri Lanka, to educate communities, to clean our environment and importantly and eventually create dengue free zones through a behavioral change."

With an initial commitment to supply much needed equipment to the Colombo Municipal Council and sponsor a clean up drive targeting 27 schools and all premises within a radius of 200 meters of these schools in highly populated areas in Colombo, the ‘Panadol Sahana Balakaya’ is a collective effort by both the state and private sector to control the spread of Dengue in high risk areas of Colombo.

Chief Medical Officer of the Colombo Municipality, Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam said, "In the year 2005 we had a very good dengue control programme targeting school children who are usually more prone to this disease. This effort helped us to reduce the infection rate among the school attending population by 60% with an overall decrease of 40% among all age categories. The aim of this latest effort is also the same and we hope to achieve results in the next few weeks."