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Prescription for Disaster: Europe faces alarming medicine shortages crisis

Video. Prescription for Disaster: Europe faces medicine shortages crisis

Updated: 13/07/2023 - 17:01 GMT+2

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In Lithuania, people have to travel across the country to get ahold of much-needed prescriptions.

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