The Sri Lanka Medical Association, the country's oldest professional medical body, wrote to Mr Rajapaksa last week warning him that even emergency treatments may have to be stopped in the coming days.In late March, a 70-year-old woman was wheeled into a government-backed tertiary care hospital in a Colombo suburb.The doctor dealing with the emergency said the patient ideally needed to be injected with albumin.
"If this Indian credit line works, there won't be an issue for the next six months," Mr Rathnayake said. "We have almost used all the stocks and no ET tubes will be available in few weeks," the society's president Saman Kumara said in a letter shared on social media. The hospital, which records around 50,000 patient visits every month with a staff of just over 2,500, is one of the country's major urban health facilities that serves multiple districts, an official said.
Overall, the government owed around 4 billion rupees to suppliers of items such as gloves and reagents used for medical testing, said Mr Rathnayake from the pharmaceutical ministry.
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