{"id":101991,"date":"2025-10-28T08:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/101991\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:37:06","slug":"shortage-of-380-medicines-including-essential-ones-rajitha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/101991\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortage of 380 medicines, including essential ones – Rajitha"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Minister of Health Rajitha Senaratne says Sri Lanka is facing a shortage of over 380 medicinal drugs, including essential medicines, at present.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters<\/a>, Rajith Senaratne revealed that all hospitals, including state hospitals, have stopped conducting blood tests over the last four months.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are conducting it through laboratories. The blood tests are done from outside, with patients spending money. During my tenure, I prohibited tests from being conducted outside of the hospital. All tests were done in-house for free. But today, they are being conducted for money,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rajitha Senaratne said that patients undergoing surgery are now provided with a list of medical supplies, adding; \u201c A doctor recently told me that a patient is provided with a list amounting to at least Rs. 50,000 for a bypass surgery, while some could go as high as Rs. 100,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Health Minister questioned how patients are managing under such circumstances, having to face sudden expenses of between Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 100,000 for medical expenses. (Newswire)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Minister of Health Rajitha Senaratne says Sri Lanka is facing a shortage of over 380 medicinal drugs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":{"0":"post-101991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}