Antibiotics used to treat are not in short supply, the Health Secretary has insisted as pharmacies and parents have spoken of difficulties accessing the drugs.
said he is in ‘close contact’ with suppliers and none have informed him that there are too few antibiotics — something they are duty-bound to do.
Stocks of the drugs used to treat Strep A, which has killed at least nine children across the UK in recent weeks, are being kept under ‘constant review’, he said.
It comes as pharmacy bosses warn there are ‘no drugs’ available and a mother has told of how there was no medicine available to treat her daughter, us who was infected with Strep A.