
A | 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.
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B | 老将尼昂在544场NBA比赛生涯中场均得到7.4分,但他因伤缺席了整个2025-26赛季。布兰登·威廉姆斯如何融入勇士体系?这位进入联盟第五年的球员加入了一支后卫众多的球队,队中已有斯蒂芬·库里、布兰丁·波杰姆斯基、摩西·穆迪、威尔·理查德、LJ·克赖尔、加里·佩顿二世和德安东尼·梅尔顿等好手。威廉姆斯有望成为勇士队替补席上的一把“尖刀”。

C | 这是他非常熟悉的角色,而勇士队也深知他在面对其他球队第二阵容时能爆发出多大的能量——上赛季他们就曾亲身领教过。2025年圣诞节,效力于独行侠的威廉姆斯在对阵勇士时打出了生涯代表作之一。

D | 那天的他手感热得发烫,全场12投9中狂砍26分。2025年3月7日,他在对阵孟菲斯灰熊队的比赛中砍下生涯最高的31分,全场15投10中,其中三分球8投4中。此外,他还贡献了6次助攻、5个篮板和1次抢断。那场比赛充分展现了威廉姆斯冲击篮筐和制造犯规的能力,他全场获得8次罚球机会并命中7球。乔治·尼昂如何融入勇士体系?如果保持健康,尼昂将为勇士队的阵容增添又一个三分火力点,他的技术特点与球队可谓完美契合。在NBA征战十年后,尼昂已经证明了自己是一名可靠的角色球员和值得信赖的三分射手,其职业生涯的三分命中率高达40%。尼昂因脚伤缺席了2025-26赛季。

E | 勇士队上赛季对伤病问题可谓深有体会,库里、穆迪、吉米·巴特勒和艾尔·霍福德等主力球员都曾受到伤病困扰。尼昂曾先后效力于印第安纳步行者、犹他爵士、费城76人、克利夫兰骑士和亚特兰大老鹰队。去年休赛期被交易后,他原本打算重返爵士队,因为爵士认为他的老将经验有助于年轻核心的成长。如今,尼昂加盟了这支老将坐镇、年轻替补充满活力的勇士队,有望产生完美的化学反应。此外,尼昂对勇士队的球队文化和发展体系应该不陌生,因为在2017-18赛季,他曾效力于勇士队的发展联盟附属球队——圣克鲁兹勇士队。老友重聚威廉姆斯不需要太多时间就能适应勇士队的环境和战术体系,因为队中已经有他非常熟悉的老友。现年26岁的威廉姆斯来自洛杉矶,曾就读于加州恩西诺的克里斯卡莫雷斯特高中,并与梅尔顿是高中校友兼队友。两人同场竞技时极具统治力,梅尔顿场均砍下20分,威廉姆斯场均贡献15.8分,带领校队取得33胜5负的骄人战绩,并夺得加州校际联盟(CIF)第一级别州锦标赛冠军。在威廉姆斯签约后,两人通过FaceTime视频通话庆祝,并晒出了两人笑容满面的截图。威廉姆斯还引用了嘻哈制作人钱德勒·“特波”·达勒姆的经典标语。虽然不是在老家南加州,但威廉姆斯毕竟回到了西海岸,这对他来说无疑是一件令人舒心的事情。有了梅尔顿这位老友相伴,相信他能更加顺利地融入湾区的生活与比赛。
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