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GHS doctors scramble to switch patient prescriptions after Remedica drug recall

GHS doctors scramble to switch patient prescriptions after Remedica drug recall

Doctors within Cyprus’s General Health System (GHS/GESY) are scrambling to change patients’ prescriptions following yesterday’s announcement of a mass recall of pharmaceutical products by Remedica.

Patients are also struggling to reach their doctors, many of whom are away on summer holiday, while several pharmacies are closed ahead of the 15 August holiday, making it difficult to reach pharmacists as well....

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