{"id":570289,"date":"2026-03-30T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570289\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T07:36:08","slug":"coventry-man-fears-stroke-or-heart-attack-due-to-aspirin-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570289\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry man fears stroke or heart attack due to aspirin shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Alia Fahmy is medical director of Concierge Medical based in Warwickshire and a former NHS GP in Leamington Spa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She explained aspirin played a critical role for millions of patients with cardiovascular conditions and was baffled at the shortage which has been ongoing since late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why we are in a situation where we&#8217;re beholden to supply and demand when it comes to something as basic as healthcare and medicine,&#8221; she said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We need to be being better prepared and whether that is establishing UK-based drug companies, I don&#8217;t know. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;More and more we are hearing about drug shortages [and] that should not be happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Alia Fahmy is medical director of Concierge Medical based in Warwickshire and a former NHS GP in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":["post-570289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}