Sri Lanka Crisis News Direct Update: President of Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa Tuesday night which is late to revoke an emergency with the direct effect in the archipelago. In Gazette Notification Number 2274/10, the President said he had attracted emergency government regulations that provide security forces to sweep the power to curb disorders in the country.
President Rajapaksa has declared an emergency on April 1 amid a series of protests over the worst economic crisis in the country, with thousands of gathering outside the president’s private residence, demanding his resignation.
Then, the government imposes curfew across the island. Protests continued from hours of night and emergencies with senior ruler party figures who owned their homes surrounded by angry protesters who urged the government to the solution to the economic crisis. Revocation of Lembaranas assumes the significance when the ruler coalition seems to have lost its majority in 225 parliamentarians with more than 40 MPS stating the independence of the ruling coalition.
Sri Lanka’s doctors to protest against drugs shortage as crisis persists
Doctor Sri Lanka said they would hold a road protest in the Commercial Capital Colombo on Wednesday because hospitals ran out of medicines were important because of the country’s worst economic crisis in decades.
The Association of Government Medical Officers, who represent more than 16,000 doctors nationally, said medical officers from all Colombo will gather at the Sri Lanka National Hospital and protest “against the lack of serious drugs”.
Malaka Samararathna, who works in a state-run APEXHA hospital that treats tens of thousands of cancer patients from all over the country every year, says not only drugs but even the chemicals used in short-running testing.
“The patients who commit chemotherapy, we must monitor them carefully. Every day we have to monitor this investigation,” Samararatha said. “So, if we can’t do it, we can’t decide on the way forward. We can’t decide on the right management. Sometimes our chemotherapy drug causes severe side effects, so the only way we have to find it is to do this investigation.”
He said cancer drugs such as filgrastim and cytarabine, as well as several antibiotics, in short supplies.