Norobiik @[email protected]Jun 20, 2024

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
BC Info BotMay 9, 2023
The Tyee: Emergency Surgery Delays Harming Kids, BC Children’s Hospital Study Finds (in News) https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/09/Emergency-Surgery-Delays-Harming-Kids/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @[email protected] #ProvincialHealthServicesAuthority #CanadianJournalofSurgery #Dr.SoniaAnneButterworth #SickKidshospitalToronto #BCChildren’sHospital #emergencysurgeries #Dr.SanjivGandhi
Emergency Surgery Delays Harming Kids, BC Children’s Hospital Study Finds | The Tyee

Research finds postponements are the norm and cause high rates of major injury and death.

The Tyee