Hospitals lack even basic drugs for surgical operations.

医院甚至缺乏外科手术的基本必需的药品。

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Prices of basic drugs slashed 12%.

中国基础药价下调12%。

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Second, we will establish a national system for basic drugs.

二是建立国家基本药物制度。

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These are all things that you know if your people have something to live for, the economy starts getting stronger, they start having access to basic medical care, they are going to be overall less likely to turn to drugs."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

There is undoubtedly waste in the system but I visited a hospital near Piraeus two days ago that had a shortage of syringes, dressings and basic drugs.

BBC: Europe: Waiting on Athens

Minnesota lawyer and businessman Scott Hillstrom started HealthStore in 1997 after traveling through Kenya and noticing that one of the big problems there was lack of reliable access to basic generic drugs.

FORBES: Drug Delivery

Now, the biggest stand-alone cancer biotech company will sell mostly drugs whose basic formulations were made decades ago.

FORBES: A Billionaire's Biotech Deal And Old Drugs Reborn