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Critical medicine shortages are a pressing issue, especially for pharmacies in rural and remote areas, and locating the nearest available source can be an added challenge.
There are currently 419 medicines on the short-supply list according to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), including blood pressure, diabetes, and HIV medication.
A medicine shortage occurs any time pharmacies are unable to meet the customers’ needs in terms of supplying their prescriptions and the problem is not disappearing any time soon…