Africa-Press – Cape verde. The national market has been experiencing a lack of contrast for several months for carrying out Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT), harming several patients who have been permanently visiting pharmacies looking for it for the purpose of this exam.
In this regard, Inforpress contacted several pharmacies in the City of Praia, namely the Santo António, Santa Isabel, Avenida, São Filipe and Africana pharmacies, which confirm the lack of this product on the national market for several months now, with no forecast of its availability yet. replacement.
As a result, they state that users have been constantly visiting pharmacies in the hope of finding this product, which is in high demand, to carry out their exams at the Agostinho Neto University Hospital and be able to continue their appointments as normal.
Inforpress learned, however, through the technical director of Farmácia Avenida, Silviane Barros, that the old product carried out for this exam is no longer being sold in the country, assuming that the reason is related to the war and the pandemic that caused that many products were banned from export, as this was also a product in great demand abroad.
“Emprofac imports from abroad and pharmacies buy from this company, the old one is missing because it no longer comes to Cape Verde, but, however, we have information about another solution that Emprofac brought which is much more expensive compared to iopromide, the old one, and which is not yet being commercialized”, he added.
In the meantime, we contacted Emprofac to obtain more information on the subject, however our efforts were unsuccessful, so we hope to provide more information as soon as possible.
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