Medicine emergency in NRW: 837 medicines are missing!

Medicine emergency in NRW: 837 medicines are missing!

Emmerich, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland - drama about medication in Germany! patients desperately wrestle for urgently needed medicines, so the alarming finding from a survey by the Federal Association of the Pharmaceutical wholesale: Say and write every second German struggles through the medical-chaos jungle, plagued by sold out, non-available diabetes and Antibiotics that could only arrive in days!

Nationwide panic on pharmacy shelves! A total of 462 medicines are currently not available, and the location seems to escalate mercilessly. In the current year alone, 737 delivery bottlenecks were reported to the attentive Federal Institute for Medicines and Medical Devices. Regional pharmacists, such as Carsten Moser from Emmerich in North Rhine-Westphalia, raise the alarm: "837 medicines are missing, and the number increases." The situation for psychotropic drugs, asthma medication, dialysis preparations and vital saline solutions is particularly tricky.

hour after hour on medication hunt!

The desperate drug run leads to patients to take an hour's approach, just to get a single medication, so Dr. Philipp Hoffmann, who runs four pharmacies in Rhineland-Palatinate. With the latest technology, his team is fighting to secure tightest medication. Despite this effort, around 150 critical preparations are currently missing-from children's vaccines to diabetes medication.

table-salt bottlenecks paralyze hospitals!

Not only pharmacies, hospitals also suffer from the lack of saline solutions that should make medication transportable, but are now often replaced by tablets. The statement by Michael Becker, pharmacist from Gengenbach, who sees the causes in relocating production abroad. In the meantime, the technician health insurance data reveal that the prescribed daily doses per insured person rose by 2.5 percent compared to the previous year. However, the experts do not call the pandemic conditions or conflict in Ukraine.

pharmacists like Moser agree: sounds like tireless hickhack to loot the last reserves or to buy them over long distances. His appeal to Minister Karl Lauterbach seems to be clear: overtime rewarding them fairly or finally remedy!