当地时间8月15日，有着西班牙“狼孩”之称的马科斯·罗德里格斯·潘托哈在西班牙北部奥伦塞省去世，享年80岁。潘托哈之所以被称为“狼孩”，是因为他少儿时代曾经与狼群共同生活了12年，是由狼群抚养长大的。 Colombo, Oct 11 (UNI) Since Sri Lanka announced in April that it will default on its foreign debt, its 22 million residents have lost access to most medicine and medical supplies, setting them on course for a humanitarian disaster, a report published on Tuesday said.
The report by ReliefWeb, a humanitarian information project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, was quoted as saying by The Island newspaper that unlike Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sri Lanka’s crisis grew slowly and has garnered few international headlines.
But Sri Lankans are suffering amid the harshest economic crisis the country has confronted since gaining independence in 1948, it said.
With the country’s foreign reserves depleted, the nationalized healthcare system cannot afford to import medicine and medical supplies in sufficient quantities, it said.
Sri Lanka relies on imports for about 85 per cent of its pharmaceutical needs and about 80 per cent of its medical supplies. The country imported $815 million in medicine in 2021, but by May had only about $25 million in foreign reserves to pay for imports of any kind.
Last week in Sri Lanka, Direct Relief staff participated in an extensive series of meetings with Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and much of the country’s healthcare leadership while overseeing the arrival of what may be the largest donation of medicine to the country since the crisis began.
“For the next six months, they’re (Sri Lanka) expecting a catastrophic number of deaths,” said Chris Alleway, Direct Relief’s manager of emergency response and new initiatives, who led the Sri Lanka meetings.
The 3,500-bed National Hospital of Sri Lanka in Columbo, which usually has 1,300 medicines in stock, is now down to requesting only the 60 most essential medicines, the newspaper reported.
With anesthesia in short supply, most general surgeries in the country have ceased, including kidney transplants. Cancer patients have lost access to medications needed to fight the deadly disease. Diabetes patients must secure and bring their own glucose meters for blood sugar check-ups.
Many hospitals are stocked out of basic items like bandages and cotton balls. The stockouts are forcing rural clinics to close their doors and refer patients to larger facilities in urban areas, which also are overwhelmed by the flow of patients.
Due to a severe fuel shortage, the country’s fishing fleets cannot go far out to sea, slashing the supply of fish that is a significant source of protein in the country, including at its largest children’s hospital, it said.
Sri Lanka is also losing clinicians as they migrate to other countries with more opportunities, while its medical colleges see the number of applicants for medical education decline sharply.
Responding to the crisis spurred by Sri Lanka’s default in June of this year, Direct Relief has delivered eight humanitarian shipments totaling 27 tonnes and 16 million defined daily doses of donated medicine.
The largest shipment from Direct Relief to Sri Lanka -- 18 tonnes of medicine and medical supplies requested explicitly by Sri Lanka’s government -- arrived in recent weeks.
UNI MR。

1965年，西班牙国民警卫队在搜索塞拉莫雷纳山脉时，一个赤身裸体、光着脚且四肢着地的年轻人从丛林中爬了出来，这个年轻人就是时年19岁的潘托哈，过去12年间，他一直生活在山中，与世隔绝。他被发现时脚上长满了厚厚的老茧，而且不会说话。在经历了长时间的对人类社会的重新适应后，潘托哈恢复了语言功能。他后来说，自己3岁时母亲去世，父亲再婚后，继母对他进行了残酷的虐待。

二 | 由于家里人口太多，他被父亲和继母赶到山上放羊，和一位老人住在一起。但是他7岁时老人去世了，他被孤零零地留在了山上。一开始，潘托哈观察动物们吃哪些水果蔬菜，靠有样学样活了下来，后来一只母狼收养了他，从此他跟着狼群一起生活了12年，直到被人发现。潘托哈说，当时母狼给幼崽喂完食后扔给了他一块肉，起先他不敢吃，以为母狼要攻击他，后来发现母狼只是用鼻子把肉在他面前推来推去。“我捡起肉吃了，以为母狼要咬我，但它却伸出舌头开始舔我。

三 | 从那时起，我就成了这个家庭的一分子。”

潘托哈说，他还有一条蛇作伴，因为他给蛇喂羊奶，蛇就跟着他到处走。国民警卫队发现他后强行将他从山上拖了下来，他像狼一样嚎叫和撕咬，警卫队员们不得不绑住他的手脚并堵住他的嘴。潘托哈说，重返人类社会是他一生中最可怕的经历。他先是被送到一家孤儿院，修女们教他如何直立行走、如何坐下来吃饭。他不会使用餐具，而且常常觉得四肢着地“走路”更舒服。潘托哈说和狼群在一起的12年是自己这辈子最快乐的时光，他曾经试图重返山区，却发现自己原先居住的洞穴已经被改建成了别墅，而且狼群也不再接纳他。