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