BREAKING NEWS: Critical medication shortage looms
A pensioner is without critical medication, following a reported widespread medicine shortage.
Critical drug shortages have left an elderly resident without vital medication.
Reports from multiple sources indicated the pensioner, who hails from Newcastle, could not receive pills for heart disease last week, owing to no stocks at a local hospital.
Provincial parliamentarians have vowed to investigate this matter further.
This is a developing story, and will be updated with additional information and comments from various spheres as it becomes available.
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