SLRCS is working closely with Ministry of Health to provide essential medicines that are currently in short supply to hospitals.įirst aiders and the Red Cross ambulances been providing emergency medical response to over 20,000 people injured during recent protests, including demonstrators and security forces. Clean water is being provided to those queuing for days for fuel and food parcels for 10,000 families in four districts. Over 10,000 dry ration food packs and 4000 cash grants have so far been distributed in 25 districts of the county, 5000 school packs have been given out in 10 districts. The SLRCS is a neutral and impartial organization which has been providing humanitarian assistance since the country’s independence. The IFRC is supporting the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) as the main national humanitarian actor. We need to act early to ensure lives can be saved.”

“We need international support now to help millions of people pull their lives back together and avoid the worse. It’s even worse for single parent households, and millions who cannot work or send their children to school because of the fuel crisis. “The situation has taken a devastating turn for people already struggling to put food on the table during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sri Lanka Red Cross Secretary General, Mahesh Gunasekara, said: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) holds particularly grave concerns for 2.4 million people already living below the poverty line who are among the most affected by the loss of livelihoods, food shortages and spiraling cost of essential items. Millions of families are facing shortages of food, fuel, cooking gas, essential supplies, and medicines as the humanitarian impacts of the economic crisis continue to multiply. Colombo/Kuala Lumpur, 21 July 2022 – The economic crisis in Sri Lanka is tipping into one of the country’s worst humanitarian crises in decades, with 6.7 million people now in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.

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