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A national drug shortage, affecting everything from cancer therapies to antibiotics to pain medications, has Delaware health care providers scrambling to find alternatives, and in some cases patient care has been delayed or less effective drugs have been used. “It’s coming to a crisis point,” said Kimberly Couch, clinical pharmacist at Nanticoke Health Services in Seaford, adding there is a scarcity of chemotherapy drugs, antibiotics and some medications used for heart problems. “People are getting the care they need but it definitely makes the logistics for care a lot more difficult for patients.” Shortages of drugs, she continued, have been a problem for some time but the situation has come to a head in the last month or so.

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