The National Cancer Institute (NCI), the country’s premiere cancer centre in Colombo, is running short of many critical medicines, anaesthesia drugs and surgical consumables, Cancer World has found. “There have been no surgery cancellations as of yet. There is a shortage of some anaesthesia drugs but we are using their alternatives,” says Kanisha De Silva, consultant oncology surgeon at NCI. Shortages are worse in the other nine regional hospitals, he adds, and routine surgery had been cancel