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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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.
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.
Residents from rural communities say district hospitals continue to face challenges due to limited resources and occasional…
An emergency shipment of medicines flown in from Fiji last week has provided only partial relief to Samoa's ongoing medicine…
