Private hospitals have been hit by a shortage of key medication to treat pregnant women who are prone to hypertension and suffer from convulsions that high blood pressure causes.But Minister of Health Dr. Leslie Ramsammy and GPHC’s Chief Executive Officer Michael Khan both denied that the GPHC was suffering from a similar shortage.Khan told Kaieteur News that the hospital had full stocks of diazepam,Cheap NFL Jerseys, hydralazine and magnesium sulphate. The CEO also disclosedthat the GPHC had loaned some of the anti-hypertension medication to a private hospital.Ramsammy also said that he had investigated the report and had found no shortage of anti-hypertensive medication in the public sector.Sources in the hospital’s pharmacy had told this newspaper that the pharmacy only had stocks of diazepam.Two private hospitals confirmed that they were out of hydralazine and magnesium sulphate. A source at one of the institutions indicated that supplies of the prescription drugs might be available at some pharmacies or at the GPHC.According to sources,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, the drugs have been out of stock for some time and will not be available in the country for the next two weeks. The source had said that one hypertensive patent had suffered convulsions at a private hospital where there were no stocks of hydralazine and magnesium sulphate.A medical source explained that magnesium sulphate prevents hypertensive maternal patients from going into convulsions and allows staff to move the patient to be transferred from one location to another without endangering the patient’s life.“If you use valium,Jerseys NFL China, it becomes very dangerous to move the patient. The magnesium sulphate stops the ‘fitting’ without rendering the patient unconscious,China Jerseys, while hydralazine lowers the blood pressure.”