Diseases on the rise
Patients no longer receive medication after 10 years
The diabetes outpatient clinics in Upper Austria are full: over the past three years, they have seen an increase in patients of 38 percent. Due to the increasing demand, there are repeated supply problems with insulin preparations. There are real shortages of diabetes medications, which have become fashionable as weight loss injections.
"I'm diabetic and have been on insulin for ten years. Now, for the first time, I can no longer get my medication." It was a shock for Günther Waldmann (77) from Ohlsdorf, who now has to switch to a replacement product, which pharmacist Susanne Sokoll-Seebacher from Pinsdorf was just able to find for her customer. "The supply problems with insulin preparations are wavelike. We don't know when they will be available again. This uncertainty is also a great burden for us," says Sokoll-Seebacher. And she is not an isolated case.
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