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Sri Lanka faces 13-hour blackouts, hospitals stop surgery as crisis deepens

Sri Lanka faces 13-hour blackouts, hospitals stop surgery as crisis deepens

COLOMBO, March 30, 2022 (AFP) – Sri Lanka announced nationwide 13-hour daily power cuts from Thursday and more hospitals suspended routine surgeries after running out of life-saving medicines, as the cash-strapped island’s economic crisis deepened. The South Asian nation of 22 million people is in its worst economic spiral since independence in 1948, sparked by an … Read more