Missing fever juice for children, bottlenecks in breast cancer drugs: Why are there supply bottlenecks in drugs?

Sometimes an anesthetic is missing, sometimes there are bottlenecks in a drug for breast cancer patients or fever syrup for children: for years there have been supply bottlenecks in Germany for drugs, which also endanger the care of the sick. This shortage (currently reported by the Federal Institute for Drugs and medical devices with a delivery bottleneck for a good 250 preparations) has two main reasons…