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We were at the pharmacy a few minutes ago, and the pharmacy was complaining about how the shortage of medicine was affecting the customer, and they are paying more for medicine, instead of ten rupees they are paying 18 rupees. why this is happening, sri lanka has one out of foreign exchange reserves. they have only $2 billion of foreign exchange reserves, and the shortage is leading to an increase in prices, and that is what brought these people to the streets, and these protests are going on for more than three weeks now. not only in colombo, but in other parts of the country. the government ...

The prices went up by 40% and it's not the first time. only last month the prices increased by 30% which means people are paying 70% more and we went into a pharmacy a few minutes ago. the pharmacy owner were complaining how the shortages of medicine are affecting the customers and how they are paying more, for example, a medicine worth ten rupees is now with 18 rupees. why is this happening? because sri lanka has run out of foreign exchange reserves. they have $2 billion of foreign exchange reserves and have to pay four weeks of imports and the shortages are leading to increasing prices and t...

Were increased by nearly 30% which means people are paying 70% more. we we re we were at a pharmacy a few minutes ago and the pharmacy owner was complaining that customers were paying more, that the medicine that was ten rupees, now it is 18 rupees, and this is happening because sri lanka has run out of foreign exchange reserves, and the shortage is leading to an increase in crisis, and that is what brought these people to the streets, and these protests are going on for more than three weeks now, not only here in colombo but also in other parts of the country, but the government has ruled out...