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Cardiac intensive care doctor Eranda Ranasinghe, 30, cannot forget the mornings when he left the Sri Jayewardenepura government hospital in Colombo after a backbreaking night shift, only to go directly to join a petrol queue.
"There were days I waited till midnight for petrol," he said.
