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 March 8 (Sunday).  The spokesman for HA announced that at 7pm today (March 19), it was arranged to replace the drug for a total of 20,068 patients.  The arrangement was smooth and orderly.

Ends/Thursday, March 19, 2009
Issued at HKT 20:22

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