Tymoshenko: No shortage of anti-flu medicines at Ukrainian hospitals
Tymoshenko said the country's hospitals are provided with a sufficient reserve of the antiviral drug Tamiflu, which Ukraine bought from Switzerland.

Tymoshenko: No shortage of anti-flu medicines at Ukrainian hospitals

Nov 5, 2009 at 17:41 | Interfax-Ukraine
Kyiv, November 5 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has said that currently there are no shortages at Ukrainian hospitals of the medicines needed to treat flu and acute respiratory infections.

"As for medicines, I think that I have enough reason [to say] that we have no shortages of medicines at hospitals treating the public," Tymoshenko said on Thursday at a meeting at Chernivtsi regional state administration.

The prime minister also said that antibiotics purchased from India would be sent to hospitals in the near future.

Moreover, Tymoshenko said the country's hospitals are provided with a sufficient reserve of the antiviral drug Tamiflu, which Ukraine bought from Switzerland.

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