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COLOMBO : Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued a gazette notification at 12 midnight on Friday, Feb.11 declaring a chain of services as ‘ Essential Services’.
The gazetted essential services which will be implemented with immediate effect include the supply of power, in-house patient care, nursing homes, dispensaries, and other similar institutions, and all services, work or labour related to reception, care, nourishment, and treatment as essential services.