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Bacchus4.0

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Mon May 5, 2014, 08:55 AM May 2014

Scarcity of pharmaceutical products at 50% in Venezuela

Scarcity is overarching. Food, personal care products, household cleaning items, vehicles and even drugs, as confirmed by the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV).

Based on data supplied by the BCV, ending March, shortage of pharmaceutical products amounted to 50%. The BCV report verifies the plight underwent day by day by patients.

Chambers and associations in the health sector have warned for months against "suffocation" due to delays in settlement of foreign currency allocated at the official exchange rate. As a result, final products, raw materials and inputs cannot be imported.

The Chamber of the Pharmaceutical Industry (Cifar) gave the latest notice. In a press release in early April, Cifar advised that the impossibility to pay the debt to providers could add troubles to supply the domestic market.

http://www.eluniversal.com/economia/140505/scarcity-of-pharmaceutical-products-at-50-in-venezuela

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Scarcity of pharmaceutical products at 50% in Venezuela (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 May 2014 OP
k&r for awareness...n/t terip64 May 2014 #1
The sound you hear COLGATE4 May 2014 #2
following advice from Cuba and Weisbrot on economic matters hasn't worked out too well n/t Bacchus4.0 May 2014 #3
Who would have ever guessed it? n/t COLGATE4 May 2014 #4
I saw yesterday an article hospitals only 5% stocked n/t Bacchus4.0 May 2014 #5
Obviously to be able to only attend COLGATE4 May 2014 #6
Emergency rooms lack basics like gloves for physicians. It's getting VERY bad. nt MADem May 2014 #7
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