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By The Editorial Board • 28 January 2026, 9:50AM

The new year has just started, and reports of a shortage of medicines are popping up again. If it happens once or twice, the supply chain can be blamed, but the medicine shortage seems to occur every few weeks.

By The Editorial Board • 28 January 2026, 9:50AM

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