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Hospitals are struggling with severe drug shortages and cancer patients have had their treatment upended by Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since independence in 1948.
Hospitals are struggling with severe drug shortages and cancer patients have had their treatment upended by Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis since independence in 1948.
Hundreds of people have had their treatment upended by the country’s major economic crisis.
Amid crippling fuel scarcity and weeks of unrest, Kumarasinghe said he was unable to travel the 155 km (96 miles) between his home and Sri Lanka's main cancer hospital on the outskirts of the country's largest city, Colombo, for treatment. "If I had been able to get treatment properly during June, July and August there is a good possibility I could have reduced the lung cancer," he told Reuters.
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Priyantha Kumarasinghe starts his day in the small Sri Lankan town of Maharagama with a breakfast of two biscuits and a small glas...