medicine shortage
Pharmacy supply crisis
A medicine shortage occurs when demand for a pharmaceutical drug exceeds available supply, leaving patients unable to obtain needed medications.
Shortages may result from manufacturing problems, supply chain disruptions, regulatory issues, or sudden spikes in demand.
The hospital rationed antibiotics during the shortage.
Critical medications like chemotherapy drugs and anesthetics are particularly concerning when scarce.
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- stockoutInventory exhaustion event
- out of stockInventory exhausted
- empty shelvesStorage with nothing stored
- rationingLimiting distribution during scarcity
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