400 types of medicines brought under emergency purchases

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Colombo (LNW): Four hundred types of medicines have been brought to Sri Lanka under emergency purchases and distributed to hospitals, said the Health Ministry.

In the meantime, 378 types of medicines received under the Indian credit line have also been distributed to hospitals, but a shortage of 77 types of medicines is still being experienced by hospitals, said Ministry’s Additional Secretary Dr. Saman Rathnayake.

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