{"id":73515,"date":"2025-10-12T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73515\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T08:44:07","slug":"how-chronic-drug-shortage-is-frustrating-eu-pharmacists-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/73515\/","title":{"rendered":"How chronic drug shortage is frustrating EU pharmacists, patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"card-text\">\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5i8KwDOIxBvu1rvWT5WH8Isn1o1obspKd1lGzbli.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0Like other EU nations, Belgium has increasingly experienced medicine shortages that vex pharmacists, exasperate patients and risk overloading public health services. [AFP]&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Uncover the stories others won\u2019t tell. Subscribe now for exclusive access\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    Unlimited access to all premium content<br \/>\n                    Uninterrupted ad-free browsing experience<br \/>\n                    Mobile-optimized reading experience<br \/>\n                    Weekly Newsletters<br \/>\n                    MPesa, Airtel Money and Cards accepted<\/p>\n<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va0PRAYGk1Fo4ODHAg0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Follow The Standard<br \/>\n                                    channel<br \/>\n                                    on WhatsApp<\/a><br \/>\n                                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0&#13; &#13; \u00a0Like other EU nations, Belgium has increasingly experienced medicine shortages that vex pharmacists, exasperate patients and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[57774,57775,57773,134,524,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-73515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-eu-public-health-sector","9":"tag-eu-vex-pharmacists","10":"tag-european-unioneu-chronic-drug-shortage","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73515","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=73515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}