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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Devana Senanayake in Colombo

‘People are going to die’: crisis-hit Sri Lanka runs out of medicine

An Indian worker walks past the packages of essential medicines that are being shipped to Sri Lanka amid the country's ongoing economic crisis
India has sent emergency medical supplies to Sri Lanka. Photograph: Idrees Mohammed/EPA

Chandrapala Weerasuriya can’t remember when he last took his medication. The 67-year-old retired businessman, living in Sri Lanka’s Gampaha district, has always relied on a drug to keep at bay his hereditary nervous condition, which makes him dizzy and unable to walk.

But since his prescription recently ran out, he cannot get another supply. The drug is simply not available in Sri Lanka any more.

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