Sales finally began picking up when the company won contracts to supply state governments and hospitals.

So we have helped to supply and reopen hospitals across Iraq.

In contracting to supply domestic hospitals, blood banks operate in a very competitive market.

Complaining of government bureaucracy, they have stopped working with the government this week and begun supplying villages and hospitals on their own.

An Indian public interest group, charging that pharmaceutical companies are supplying hospitals with contaminated products, won its first battle this week against drug enforcement agencies.

Esparza grew gardens of herbs for medical use to supply local hospitals.

Access to drugs has also been affected, as some drug manufacturers, owed tens of millions of dollars, are no longer willing to supply Greek hospitals.

For years, local temporary-help agencies have supplied hospitals with substitute nurses on a weekly, daily or shift-to-shift basis.

The government then allocated funds to supply hospitals across the country; however, it was criticised in some quarters for the slowness of its actions.

Instead, they sell to dealers that supply hospitals, nursing homes and medical-equipment chain stores.