ALOR SETAR: The brief provide of medicines particularly at sure pharmacies and personal well being services is not due to panic shopping for by the general public, says Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
Instead, he mentioned this was due to the excessive demand for sure medicines following the unfold of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 earlier and the rising circumstances of hand, foot and mouth illness (HFMD) now.
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However, Khairy mentioned the state of affairs was not nationwide because it solely concerned a number of places and sure medicines, and he assured the general public that the availability of medicines within the nation was satisfactory.
“Many of the medicines had been mentioned to be briefly provide however have not run out of inventory and they’re for frequent sicknesses corresponding to flu, fever, headache and so forth.
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“So perhaps that is associated to the time when many had been contaminated with Covid-19 and after that HFMD spiked the demand for such medicines,” he mentioned in a media convention right here on Thursday (June 9).
Khairy mentioned the Health Ministry was conducting a assessment with medication producers and importers to receive detailed data on the availability of such medicines other than acquiring suggestions from the Malaysian Medical Association in addition to non-public clinics.
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“We will work with pharmaceutical companies on whether to provide alternative medicines or to import medicines from other countries.
“But now we are receiving several complaints daily and we will try to assist them to obtain stocks of the medicines. Government facilities do not have such problems,” he mentioned.
Earlier, Khairy attended the presentation of medical tools from the federal government of Japan by way of the Japan Grant Aid to the Health Ministry which was attended by Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia Takahashi Katsuhiko.
On the contribution, Khairy mentioned the medical tools value RM19.3mil could be distributed to all authorities hospitals within the nation to enhance providers at these services.
“Many hospitals could be receiving the tools and so they embody Hospital Kuala Lipis, Hospital Kuala Krai, Hospital Orang Asli Gombak and Hospital Jempol,” he mentioned.
In December 2020, Japan supplied to assist Malaysia fight Covid-19 with Japan Grant Aid to provide vital medical tools for the therapy of sufferers.
To date, 174 of the 248 models of kit had been distributed to authorities hospitals nationwide and the tools together with syringe pumps, emergency carts, blood fuel analyzers, moveable ultrasound scanners and defibrillators will proceed to be used to deal with non-Covid-19 sufferers when the outbreak is asserted over. – Bernama
