'Some shortages are going until the winter season.' Medicine shortages have reached a record high in the last 12 months.
“There's no sign of it diminishing,” she said.
“Pharmacies will come out from behind the counter and say they can't give you your medicine, you have to go back to your doctor and get an alternative,” she said. “You've also got the criticality of some of these medicines and pharmacists will go to the ends of the earth to procure supply for patients.”Ms Gannon said ingredients aren’t available to make enough medicine – or other countries are simply paying higher prices.
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