

一 | Colombo, Oct 11 (UNI) Since Sri Lanka announced in April that it will default on its foreign debt, its 22 million residents have lost access to most medicine and medical supplies, setting them on course for a humanitarian disaster, a report published on Tuesday said.
The report by ReliefWeb, a humanitarian information project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, was quoted as saying by The Island newspaper that unlike Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sri Lanka’s crisis grew slowly and has garnered few international headlines.
But Sri Lankans are suffering amid the harshest economic crisis the country has confronted since gaining independence in 1948, it said.
With the country’s foreign reserves depleted, the nationalized healthcare system cannot afford to import medicine and medical supplies in sufficient quantities, it said.
Sri Lanka relies on imports for about 85 per cent of its pharmaceutical needs and about 80 per cent of its medical supplies. The country imported $815 million in medicine in 2021, but by May had only about $25 million in foreign reserves to pay for imports of any kind.
Last week in Sri Lanka, Direct Relief staff participated in an extensive series of meetings with Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and much of the country’s healthcare leadership while overseeing the arrival of what may be the largest donation of medicine to the country since the crisis began.
“For the next six months, they’re (Sri Lanka) expecting a catastrophic number of deaths,” said Chris Alleway, Direct Relief’s manager of emergency response and new initiatives, who led the Sri Lanka meetings.
The 3,500-bed National Hospital of Sri Lanka in Columbo, which usually has 1,300 medicines in stock, is now down to requesting only the 60 most essential medicines, the newspaper reported.
With anesthesia in short supply, most general surgeries in the country have ceased, including kidney transplants. Cancer patients have lost access to medications needed to fight the deadly disease. Diabetes patients must secure and bring their own glucose meters for blood sugar check-ups.
Many hospitals are stocked out of basic items like bandages and cotton balls. The stockouts are forcing rural clinics to close their doors and refer patients to larger facilities in urban areas, which also are overwhelmed by the flow of patients.
Due to a severe fuel shortage, the country’s fishing fleets cannot go far out to sea, slashing the supply of fish that is a significant source of protein in the country, including at its largest children’s hospital, it said.
Sri Lanka is also losing clinicians as they migrate to other countries with more opportunities, while its medical colleges see the number of applicants for medical education decline sharply.
Responding to the crisis spurred by Sri Lanka’s default in June of this year, Direct Relief has delivered eight humanitarian shipments totaling 27 tonnes and 16 million defined daily doses of donated medicine.
The largest shipment from Direct Relief to Sri Lanka -- 18 tonnes of medicine and medical supplies requested explicitly by Sri Lanka’s government -- arrived in recent weeks.
UNI MR。

二 | 8月26日消息,日前,黑客组织CyberLeek(民间俗称“大葱哥”)泄露大量《GTA6》实机画面及开发素材,其中包含不少尚未公开的游戏内容,引发玩家广泛关注。

三 | 今日,Rockstar Games就此次泄露事件发表官方声明,并确认相关泄露内容属实。

四 | R星表示,《GTA6》的实机画面以这样的方式提前泄露,让整个开发团队感到非常难过。

五 |
经过这么长时间的等待,这显然不是团队希望玩家第一次看到游戏的方式。 R星同时向玩家致歉,称《GTA6》的开发和信息公布都花费了比预期更长的时间,包括游戏本身的制作、更多细节的公开以及官方实机演示等。

六 | 不过,R星也透露,目前《GTA6》的开发已经接近完成。 按照官方计划,《GTA6》加长版展示将于明日正式公布。

七 | R星表示,为了准备这段内容,团队投入的时间比原计划更长,但希望最终呈现的内容能够达到甚至超出玩家预期。

八 | 对于此次泄露带来的影响,R星坦言,部分游戏内容被提前曝光后,难免会对玩家正式游玩时的体验造成一定剧透。 不过,官方仍希望玩家能够继续耐心等待,等到11月19日游戏正式上线后,再亲自体验完整内容。 R星最后感谢了过去一周向开发团队表达支持的玩家,并表示,《GTA6》始终是为玩家而做,未来还会继续分享更多消息。
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