Sri Lanka faces medical emergency as economic crisis hits drug supplies

Union warns of complete breakdown of health system with hospitals all running out of medicines'

Sri Lanka's economic crisis has deteriorated into a medical crisis, with the top medical union declaring a national health emergency over a life-threatening shortage of drugs.

On Tuesday, the country's most powerful trade union, the Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA), called a meeting and declared a medical crisis as doctors and hospitals reported a widespread lack of medicine.