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Drug shortage at Waterloo IDP camp

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    Doctors employed by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) say they have doubled to 4,000 the chloroquine tablets they provide each week to IDPs at a medical centre that ADRA runs in Waterloo, east of Freetown, WHO reported. The centre is located in an IDP camp. An Argentinian surgeon at the centre, Rubin Rostrand, told WHO the NGO was having "serious trouble" maintaining an adequate supply of medicines since many new people were coming in sick with malaria and infectious diseases, the UN agency said in its Health Update for Sierra Leone of 8 September.

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