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Country heading towards severe shortage of specialist doctors

By Dilanthi Jayamanne in Ceylon Today, June 22, 2023With 4,000 consultant specialists being required by 2025 and only around 2,050 specialist doctors in place by 2023, the country would face a more serious situation in the near future, due to the retirement of a total 250 specialist doctors by 31 December 2023, in accordance with a Government Gazette, warned the health services. Countering a news report, published in the Ceylon Today on 13 June 2023,…

BNP fears severe economic crisis soon due to dollar crunch

report in The Daily Star, May 16, 2023BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday feared that the country will face a severe economic crisis in the days to come due to the dollar crisis. “This is the reality that coal can’t be imported due to the dollar crunch. Not only this, but the traders are also unable to import the necessary goods due to the lack of dollars. The amount of reserves has decreased…