The Covid-19 pandemic highlighted an ongoing problem: shortages of certain medicines in the EU. The European Parliament is proposing a series of measures to end this increasing but largely silent problem.

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Combatting medicine shortages in the EU

https://api.multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/documents/20125/4863065/N01-PUB-200716-MEDS-EN.srt

It's a miracle that Jessy pulled through.

He had endless convulsions for hours on end."

Millions of Europeans with different conditions

affected cancer treatments like chemotherapy, vaccines

the EU's dependence on production in third countries,

including further use of joint procurement of medicines

and ensuring the fair distribution and sharing