Hospitals Hit With IV Fluid Shortage After Hurricane Helene
Baxter tells Mass General Brigham and others it will ration shipments until North Carolina plant is back in business
By Joseph Walker and Peter Loftus
The U.S.’s largest maker of intravenous fluids will slash shipments to hospitals after Hurricane Helene took down one of its manufacturing plants in North Carolina.
Baxter sent letters to hospitals telling them that future shipments of IV fluids would be about 40% of what they normally receive after the storm flooded its facility in Marion, N.C., Dr. Paul Biddinger, chief preparedness and continuity officer at Mass General Brigham in Boston said during a conference call Thursday.
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