{"id":6662,"date":"2024-04-03T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:00:15","slug":"large-quantities-of-medicines-destroyed-by-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=6662","title":{"rendered":"Large quantities of medicines destroyed by flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/large-quantities-of-medicines-destroyed-by-flood.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Water leakage into medical storage facilities of the health ministry through a damaged roof, resulted in <strong>large quantities of medicines being destroyed<\/strong> it was revealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cypru-video-ads\" id=\"cypru-592303532\">\n<div id=\"cypru-988353396\" data-cypru-trackid=\"478051\" data-cypru-trackbid=\"1\" class=\"cypru-target\">\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-7154061705230-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The incident happened during the recent extreme rains and hailstorm which hit Nicosia on Green Monday.<br \/>\nThousands of packages were also removed to prevent them from being affected by the flood.<br \/>\nThe\u00a0health ministry is still in the process of taking stock of the damages while the financial losses incurred have yet to be assessed, <strong>leaving open the question of whether patients will be faced with shortages<\/strong>.<br \/>\nSpeaking to state broadcaster CyBC, Health Minister Michalis Damianos, rebutted accusations that the ministry had attempted to cover up the event.<br \/>\n\u201cOur main concern is for there not to be any shortages and we are taking actions in this direction,\u201d Damianos said.<br \/>\nAn <strong>ad hoc committee of pharmacologists has been set up<\/strong> to mitigate the damages and conduct a meticulous recording and sorting of the medicines which had been stored in the facility, the minister said.<br \/>\nSpecialised therapeutics and medicines at the ministry\u2019s facility included some prescribed by request to patients in need, as well as general medicines in use in the country\u2019s hospitals.<br \/>\nThe health insurance organisation\u00a0(HIO) and\u00a0the state health services (Okypy),\u00a0on behalf of which the ministry keeps the drug stocks in these warehouses, had been informed of the situation two weeks ago and authorities have already been coordinating with medical importers to make up losses, daily Phileleftheros reported.<br \/>\nAccording to the daily, <strong>drugs\u00a0<\/strong><strong>worth tens of millions of euros\u00a0were kept in the storage facilities<\/strong> and the specific building had been deemed unsuitable for months.<br \/>\nDamianos downplayed portrayals of the disaster as \u201chuge\u201d saying that appraisals of the situation must hold off until the committee\u2019s work of registering damages was completed.<br \/>\nThe minister also contested that lack of maintenance of the building\u2019s roof was to blame, calling the weather incident an \u201cact of God\u201d. 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