Essential medicines
Why are Greek pharmacies running out of basic medicines
Drug shortages bring despair to pharmacists and patients every day, with over 400 essential medicines missing from the market, leaving patients unable to meet pressing needs. The missing drugs concern chronic conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, mental illnesses, while some categories of drugs that are in short supply are anticoagulants, painkillers, antibiotics, etc.
Prices for essential medicines in Romania to be set against average of lowest three in EU
Health Minister Ioana Mihaila signed on Thursday an order amending regulations for the calculation and approval of caps on medicines for human use in Romania, so as to ensure market availability in Romania of some essential medicines for patients.
Turkey calls for abolishing health restrictions on Gaza
Turkey on May 22 urged the World Health Organization (WHO) and other U.N. agencies to take measures to stop restrictions on the movement of patients, health staff and essential medicines in the besieged Gaza Strip.