Figures from the Department of Health reveal that supplies of drugs including asthma inhalers, antibiotics, paracetamol and ibuprofen appear to have run dangerously low. The Government wrote to industry last month to ask businesses to set aside six weeks of medicines “where possible” and ministers plan to award new contracts to build up supplies. It also contains just two thirds the number of Salbutamol inhalers, the standard treatment for asthma sufferers, a shortage of 1.3 million doses. (Image: Getty)There are zero supplies of ibuprofen in the medicines stockpile, compared with almost 600,000 packs and 235,000 liquid singles this time last year. The Department of Health was unable to say whether it had any emergency stockpiles of insulin, the key drug for treating diabetics.

Source: Daily Mirror September 30, 2020 17:55 UTC