Most healthy people don’t know enough about the shortages to ask whether their hangover treatment is using nutrients that could otherwise go to a NICU. But the concern at the root of the shortages is that there’s no centralized system to monitor the medical inventories of hospitals, home health-care companies, clinics, and other treatment facilities. If there were a system that tracked the deliveries of the nutrients, an oversight entity might be able to redirect them to hospitals in need instead of clinics helping healthy people recover from a hangover or look good in a photo shoot. “It’s appalling that we are sacrificing the health of our babies for beauty, energy, and hangover relief,” says clinical pharmacist Steve Plogsted, who chairs the drug-shortage task force of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. “We’ve got babies’ lives hanging in the balance while we’re worried about getting through a hangover.”
Posted on: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:52:17 +0000
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