{"id":43289,"date":"2022-04-05T23:58:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/sri-lanka-faces-medical-emergency-economic-crisis-drug-supplies"},"modified":"2022-04-05T23:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:58:03","slug":"sri-lanka-faces-medical-emergency-as-economic-crisis-hits-drug-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43289","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka faces medical emergency as economic crisis hits drug supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Union warns of complete breakdown of health system with hospitals \u2018all running out of medicines\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s economic crisis has deteriorated into a medical crisis, with the top medical union declaring a national health emergency over a life-threatening shortage of drugs. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday the country\u2019s most powerful trade union, the Government Medical Officers\u2019 Association (GMOA), called a meeting and declared a medical crisis as doctors and hospitals reported a widespread lack of medicine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/05\/sri-lanka-faces-medical-emergency-economic-crisis-drug-supplies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union warns of complete breakdown of health system with hospitals \u2018all running out of medicines\u2019Sri Lanka\u2019s economic crisis has deteriorated into a medical crisis, with the top medical union declaring a national health emergency over a life-threatening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43290,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43289\/revisions\/43290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}