EAM Jaishankar offers India’s help after hospital in Sri Lanka suspend surgeries due to shortage of medicines
India Today
After a hospital in Sri Lanka suspended surgeries due to a lack of medicine, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar offered India's assistance.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday asked the Indian High Commissioner here to help a Sri Lankan hospital that has suspended surgeries due to lack of medical facilities, amidst an unprecedented financial crisis in the island nation.
The Director of the Peradeniya Hospital in the central district of Kandy on Monday announced the temporary suspension of all routine surgeries due to the shortage of medicine.
Jaishankar asked the Indian High Commissioner in Colombo, Gopal Baglay, to discuss measures on how India can help the ailing nation.
“Disturbed to see this news. Am asking High Commissioner Baglay to contact and discuss how India can help," he tweeted on Tuesday.
Disturbed to see this news. Am asking High Commissioner Baglay to contact and discuss how India can help.@IndiainSL #NeighbourhoodFirst https://t.co/jtHlGwxCBL
