An emergency shipment of medicines flown in from Fiji last week has provided only partial relief to Samoa's ongoing medicine shortage, with supplies covering only about half of what is currently needed.According to Radio New Zealand (RNZ), the Ministry of Health received an urgent air freight shi...

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

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