Sentence examples for lack of basic medicines from inspiring English sources

All they see is the abject standards, the lack of basic medicines, the primitive levels of hygiene, the absence of equipment.

Soup kitchens for the middle class, a huge jump in homelessness and mental disease, daily suicides, lack of basic medicines, cancer patients turned away from pharmacies, and hospitals ceasing operation because of a lack of basic supplies.

i) To improve professional networking among paediatric wards Despite the extremely difficult working conditions of staff involved (salaries small and often delayed, lack of basic medicines and supplies, and even heating in winter).

Malnutrition rates have soared and people have died due to lack of basic medicine.

A lack of trained staff and stock-outs of basic medicines and tools, as well as the public's limited means to pay for services, are some of the primary obstacles to proper health care delivery.

Our informants felt that they could treat only minor ailments, that there was a lack of even basic medicines and that the quality of service was poor.

It adds that supplies of basic medicine such as paracetamol, cephalexin, and Bicilliin are frequently exhausted.

He said around 80% of those requiring urgent treatment now die as a result of their injuries or lack of basic care, medicine and equipment.

Yet parts of the free system used by most Cubans are in trouble: buildings and equipment are decaying, dispensaries lack even basic medicines.

"We're talking about an enormous bank run as a result, no confidence in the new currency, poverty much worse than we've already seen, lack of basic items such as medicine and petrol," he said.

Cameron said he was "deeply disturbed" that those detained cannot always access medicines due to persistent lack of basic supplies, including TB medication, and that the same conditions considered in the Dudley Lee case persist, with "the air so thick one could cut it with a knife" due to poor ventilation.