The effects on the country’s already fragile #healthcare system are visible. In April last year, all #EmergencySurgeries were suspended for several weeks in the District General Hospital in #Embilipitiya, about 200km (120 miles) south of #Colombo, after two #anaesthesiologists there left the country. #SriLankaCrisis

#SriLanka loses 10 percent of its #doctors amid exodus after #EconomicCrisis
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/20/fed-up-doctor-exodus-bleeds-sri-lankas-healthcare-after-economic-crisis

‘Fed up’: Doctor exodus bleeds Sri Lanka’s healthcare after economic crisis

Nearly 10 percent of Sri Lanka’s doctors have moved to other nations in the past two years, crippling hospitals.

Al Jazeera