THE National Pharmaceutical Services Association says yesterday's power failure in South Australia is a "telling reminder of the benefits of Australia's National Medicines Policy and the value of the Community Services Obligation".
NPSA chairman Mark Hooper from Sigma said Australia has a secure, reliable medicines delivery system that has "back up and redundancy built into its very design... wholesalers always rise to the challenge and cooperate to get medicines delivered, come fire, high water or blackouts".
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