{"id":379336,"date":"2026-04-03T03:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379336\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:35:16","slug":"patients-in-japan-seek-stable-supply-of-medical-goods-as-war-concerns-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379336\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients in Japan seek stable supply of medical goods as war concerns loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortages of naphtha \u2014 an ingredient used to make plastic \u2014 has hospitals and patients in Japan worried about diminishing reserves as the war in Iran continues.<\/p>\n<p>Plastic is widely used in medicine, from surgical gloves, syringes, transfusion bags and catheters to dialysis machines.<\/p>\n<p>So far, there have been no reports of medical equipment shortages in Japan. But chronically ill patients have nevertheless voiced concerns about their long-term availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortages of naphtha \u2014 an ingredient used to make plastic \u2014 has hospitals and patients in Japan worried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[35006,103,397,396,61,11829,60,2720,1196,169539,6000,7527,13107,425],"class_list":{"0":"post-379336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-economic-security","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-manufacturing","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-naphtha","18":"tag-oil","19":"tag-plastic","20":"tag-supply-chains","21":"tag-u-s"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}