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Patients and caregivers say essential medicines for children and other patients are unavailable at the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital, forcing families to seek treatment from private pharmacies and increasing concerns about access to healthcare.A nurse familiar with the matter confirmed that seve...
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Patients say medicine shortages at the Tupua Tamasese Meaole (TTM) National Hospital pharmacy continue, forcing some to buy…

A continuing shortage of basic medicines at Samoa’s main hospital in Moto’otua is leaving many patients frustrated and forcing…

Key drugs to manage and treat type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, and also children's paracetamol, remain in low supply.

Patients seeking treatment at Poutasi and Sa'anapu district hospitals have been affected by medicine shortages over the past two…

The shortage of medicine at the national hospital has led the mental health unit to ration supplies and make home visits to…

Essential drugs like metformin, amlodipine and children’s paracetamol are scarce.