Russia faces medicine shortage and planned operations are being postponed due to sanctions – Ukrainian intelligence
Sanctions have caused an acute shortage of medication in Russia, with planned operations being postponed indefinitely.
Source: Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine on Facebook
Details: Russia’s Ministry of Health has reportedly ordered every region to create an emergency four-month reserve stock of medication.
Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence offered a number of reasons why the order has been issued:
- the effect of international sanctions on the Russian economy, as a result of which the pharmaceutical industry is not able to produce sufficient quantities of medicine;
- the real risk of medicine supplies from abroad coming to a complete halt;
- an increase in the intensity of combat action, causing a rise in the number of injured soldiers.
According to [Ukrainian] intelligence, Russian surgeons privately admit that medicine stocks are plummeting. This is having a knock-on effect on surgery – planned operations are being postponed indefinitely – and the medical sector in general.
In addition, medical stocks are not being replenished, which is driving up prices for medicine.
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