{"id":187862,"date":"2025-06-16T02:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187862\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T02:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:31:21","slug":"opposition-leader-highlights-shortage-of-essential-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187862\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader highlights shortage of essential medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-191111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Screenshot_20250614_143807_YouTube.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"377\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has raised serious concerns over a severe shortage of over 180 essential medicines in Sri Lanka, including life-saving drugs for cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney conditions, and diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>In a special statement today, Premadasa called on the government to urgently intervene, stating that the public health system is facing a grave collapse due to the lack of critical medical supplies and surgical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>He said even state hospitals, which are supposed to offer free healthcare, are unable to provide medicines, forcing patients to purchase them from private institutions at unaffordable prices\u2014turning free healthcare into a commodity.<\/p>\n<p>Premadasa warned that this shortage is directly endangering lives and accused the government of remaining silent and inactive while violating the people\u2019s basic human right to health.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that instead of merely blaming the tender process, swift and practical solutions must be implemented immediately. Emphasizing that safeguarding human life is a core duty of the government, he urged all responsible officials to act without delay. (Newswire)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has raised serious concerns over a severe shortage of over 180 essential medicines in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,4326,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-187862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114690699175282334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}