Nearly 5.7 Million Sri Lankans in Dire Need of Life-Saving Aid: UN

Nearly 5.7 Million Sri Lankans in Dire Need of Life-Saving Aid: UN
Doctors and nurses of the Lady Ridgeway Children's hospital hold placards during a silent demonstration against shortages of medicines in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 19, 2022. Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images
Aldgra Fredly
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Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis has left millions of its people in need of life-saving aid, with the severe shortages of essential medicines and frequent power cuts jeopardizing the country’s health care system.

Nearly 5.7 million people in Sri Lanka, including children, are in need of immediate life-saving assistance, according to the United Nations.