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Sri Lanka loses 10 percent of its doctors amid exodus after economic crisis Faced with spiralling inflation and poor pay, Sri Lanka’s doctors have migrated en masse to other nations in the past two years, crippling hospitals. Source:Aljazeera Lahiru Prabodha Gamage, a 35-year-old Sri Lankan doctor, at work in the UK, where he immigrated in 2023 amid an economic crisis at home. Nearly 10 percent of Sri Lanka’s doctors have left the country in the past two years [Courtesy of Lahiru Prabodha Gamage] Colombo, Sri Lanka – The bullying from a senior health official was bad enough. A sense of betrayal by government authorities during COVID-19 made it worse. But the economic crisis that pummelled Sri Lanka in the wake of the pandemic was the breaking point for Lahiru Prabodha Gamage. The 35-year-old Sri Lankan doctor left Sri Lanka in January 2023 to take up a job in the United ...