MANILA, Philippines — People are stockpiling vitamins and maintenance medicines to ensure they have enough supplies during the Luzon lockdown, but causing an artificial shortage that a group of pharmaceutical and health-care companies is trying to fill. ADVERTISEMENT“The high demand for vitamins and specific medicines [has] resulted in an artificial medicine shortage,” PHAP said in a statement on Wednesday. “We encourage [the public] not to overstock so that vulnerable [people] and at-risk groups are not left untreated. When asked about the medicines, PHAP executive director Teodoro Padilla said these were vitamins, maintenance medicines, and drugs used for the management of COVID-19 symptoms. The plan is to immediately deliver the vitamins and maintenance medicines throughout the country once the shipments arrive.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 08, 2020 21:33 UTC