26 European nations face acute scarcity of antibiotics, medicines to treat colds and flu
Europe is suffering from a serious shortage of medicines, which is becoming a major headache for many people living in the continent. Twenty-six European countries are having an acute scarcity of antibiotics.
This was revealed by EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, according to Reuters.
The EU is experiencing a shortage of antibiotics, like amoxicillin, medicines to relieve colds, the flu, and other respiratory infections, and paediatric treatments. The top health official wants access to all patients in need and stave off any hiccups in supplies of such medicines in the EU. To tackle this problem, the European Commission plans to revise in March a pharmaceutical law.
We remind that, according to the health authorities of the Republic of Moldova, there are enough medicines in the country's pharmacies, and at the national level there is no acute shortage of preparations. However, some general preparations are missing, but can be replaced by other analog products. At certain producers, the stocks have decreased because the consumption is very high during this period, especially of syrups for children, the director of the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency, Dragoș Guțu, previously stated in an interview for our radio station.
According to the National Public Health Agency, since the beginning of the cold season, over a thousand cases of flu and about 148 thousand cases of acute respiratory infections have been registered in the Republic of Moldova. Most were recorded in minors.
