Published December 21, 2022 astatine 3:03 PM EST
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Nemours Children’s Hospital is experiencing a shortage of immoderate children’s medications amidst a nationwide shortage.
The infirmary strategy presently is reporting a shortage of children’s Tamiflu, amoxicillin, Augmentin and albuterol.
Nemours Chief Medical Officer Dr. Daniel Podberesky says these shortages are owed to country-wide proviso concatenation issues and a tripledemic of the flu, COVID and RSV.
In a connection helium calls these shortages, “a moving people with nary extremity successful sight.”
For now, helium says aesculapian teams astatine Nemours are moving to root caller manufacturers of these drugs and find due substitutions, portion optimizing the proviso connected hand.
The quality comes after CVS and Walgreens announced they volition bounds the fig of pediatric symptom and fever medicines families tin bargain amidst a nationwide shortage.
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