Cabinet Spokesman, Minister Dullas Alahapperuma says that the country's foreign reserves have plummeted and even the increase in fuel prices was one of the solutions to the rapid decline in foreign reserves.
It has been observed further that a next Generation Genetic Sequencer which had been purchased at a colossal amount of Rs. 90 million some time back is still lying in boxes at Apeksha Hospital without being utilised due to incompleteness of ancillary equipment, computational systems and trained personnel to operate these complex medical systems.