Electricity, Petroleum, Healthcare declared as essential services

COLOMBO (News 1st) - The President has issued an extraordinary gazette declaring several essential services.

1. All services connected to the supply of electricity,
2. The supply or distribution of petroleum products and fuel,
3. All service, work or labour, of any description whatsoever, necessary or required to be done in connection with the maintenance, and the Reception, care feeding, and treatment, of patients in hospitals, nursing homes, dispensaries, and other similar institution

have been declared as essential services.