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Update news medicine shortage
PM Pham Minh Chinh signed an official dispatch, requesting measures to ensure the supply of medicines and medical equipment and materials for health examination and treatment.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered the Ministry of Health to find solutions to the shortages of drugs and medical supplies that have been plaguing the sector recently at a meeting with 63 provinces and cities.
Many hospitals and clinics in Ho Chi Minh City have lately struggled to obtain sufficient medicines and medical equipment.
According to National Assembly deputy Nguyen Anh Tri from Hanoi, the lack of medicine for medical treatment is unacceptable.
Experts say it is necessary to change the thinking about public procurement in the healthcare sector and quickly settle problems in regulations and drug bidding procedures.