Hospital Authority Updates on Drug Replacement Arrangement
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The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:

     The Hospital Authority (HA) started to arrange drug replacement for patients under medication treatment of Allopurinol 100mg since 8 March 2009 (Sunday).  The spokesman for HA announced that at 7:00 pm today (13 March), it was arranged to replace the drug for a total of 16,425 patients.  The arrangement was smooth and orderly.

Ends/Friday, March 13, 2009
Issued at HKT 21:14

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