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The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) has declared a state of emergency regarding the national shortage of life-saving medications.
According to MSSNY, more than 180 drugs are short, including injectable medications, chemotherapy agents, anesthetics for surgery, emergency medicine drugs and electrolytes needed for IV feedings.
"The Medical Society is calling for the Department of Health and the FDA to investigate the shortage, and then ensure that a stockpile of critical life-sustaining medications be maintained with national oversight," said MSSNy President Paul Hamlin, M.D., in a statement. "Non-compliance should result in meaningful penalties. Our physicians have been consistently expressing their concern to pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies without any relief in sight.
Some patients, he said, are fighting for their lives, and physicians can't regulate the manufacture of drugs.
The decision to declare the shortage a state of emergency was decided unanimously by physicians representing every district in the state at the society's council meeting on September 22, 2011.
MSSNY is the state's principal non-profit professional organization for physicians, residents and medical students of all specialties. Its mission is to represent the interests of patients and physicians to assure quality healthcare services for all.
The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) has declared a state of emergency regarding the national shortage of life-saving medications.
According to MSSNY, more than 180 drugs are short, including injectable medications, chemotherapy agents, anesthetics for surgery, emergency medicine drugs and electrolytes needed for IV feedings.
"The Medical Society is calling for the Department of Health and the FDA to investigate the shortage, and then ensure that a stockpile of critical life-sustaining medications be maintained with national oversight," said MSSNy President Paul Hamlin, M.D., in a statement. "Non-compliance should result in meaningful penalties. Our physicians have been consistently expressing their concern to pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies without any relief in sight.
Some patients, he said, are fighting for their lives, and physicians can't regulate the manufacture of drugs.
The decision to declare the shortage a state of emergency was decided unanimously by physicians representing every district in the state at the society's council meeting on September 22, 2011.
MSSNY is the state's principal non-profit professional organization for physicians, residents and medical students of all specialties. Its mission is to represent the interests of patients and physicians to assure quality healthcare services for all.
