{"id":354787,"date":"2026-03-30T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354787\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:46:07","slug":"coventry-man-fears-stroke-or-heart-attack-due-to-aspirin-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/354787\/","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":354788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-354787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-medication","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}