drug shortage
Pharmaceutical supply crisis
A drug shortage occurs when demand for a medication exceeds available supply, often due to manufacturing problems, raw material scarcity, or regulatory issues.
Shortages can affect everything from common antibiotics to specialized cancer treatments, forcing hospitals to ration doses or find alternatives.
The drug shortage left pharmacies scrambling for substitutes.
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- stockoutInventory exhaustion event
- out of stockInventory exhausted
- backorderDeferred fulfillment request
- pharmacyMedicinal dispensary
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Excess beyond demand
excess inventory · stockpile · surplus stock · overproduction
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