{"id":43431,"date":"2022-04-11T08:46:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T23:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/sri-lanka-nearly-out-of-medicine-as-doctors-warn-toll-from-crisis-could-surpass-covid"},"modified":"2022-04-11T08:46:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T23:46:17","slug":"sri-lanka-nearly-out-of-medicine-as-doctors-warn-toll-from-crisis-could-surpass-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43431","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka nearly out of medicine as doctors warn toll from crisis could surpass Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency surgery may soon be impossible, president told, while protests continue amid worsening economic downturn<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s doctors have warned they are almost out of life-saving medicines and say the country\u2019s economic crisis threatened a worse death toll than the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks of power blackouts and severe shortages of food, fuel and pharmaceuticals have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/06\/sri-lanka-facing-imminent-threat-of-starvation-senior-politician-warns\">brought widespread misery<\/a> to Sri Lanka, which is suffering its worst downturn since independence in 1948.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/sri-lanka-nearly-out-of-medicine-as-doctors-warn-toll-from-crisis-could-surpass-covid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency surgery may soon be impossible, president told, while protests continue amid worsening economic downturnSri Lanka\u2019s doctors have warned they are almost out of life-saving medicines and say the country\u2019s economic crisis threatened a worse deat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"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":[1066,80,61,674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43431","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\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43432,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43431\/revisions\/43432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}