Executive dictates urgent measures to avoid shortage of physiological serum

In view of the shortage of 9% physiologic serum and the withdrawal of defective products, Indecopi started a campaign of control in pharmacies and botics to verify the stock and prices of this medical input.

The deputy director of the nosocomium Omar Barreda stated that only one company offered its products and asked them for S/27.00 for each bottlec when its normal price is S/2.98.

The Government issued an emergency decree providing for extraordinary measures to ensure the supply of physiological serum 9$ solution for perfusion in the country's health facilities.The regulation, published in an extraordinary edition of the newspaper El Peruano, seeks to prevent a possible shortage of this essential input.To guarantee the quality of the product, the National Institute of Health (INS), through the National Quality Control Cen…