Medicine shortage: actions taken in Estonia and EU
Lately the shortage of medicines and health products has become an important topic everywhere around the world. Health professionals from European countries, as well as from Canada and US have been warning about potential medicine shortage. In the end of December such effect were clear in Estonia too when antipyretic syrups were nowhere to be found. At the same time doctors needed to find alternative treatments for patients in need for some specific antibiotics since they were also short in supply. Causes of shortages The supply chain disruption in pharmaceuticals is actually nothing unprecedented. However, the past few years have
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