Blast­ing Rus­sia’s Ukraine in­va­sion, Roche ships more meds and di­ag­nos­tics to war-torn coun­try

Roche is adding to its sup­ply of free meds to Ukraine as the coun­try fights off a bru­tal in­va­sion by Rus­sia.

The phar­ma gi­ant put out word to­day that it has added 4,600 packs of spe­cial­ized med­i­cines for the treat­ment of in­fluen­za, rheuma­toid arthri­tis, SMA and var­i­ous can­cers, on top of the large ship­ment of an­tibi­otics an­nounced ear­li­er in the month. And it al­so con­tributed sup­plies need­ed for test­ing 120,000 blood do­na­tions and 31,000 units for di­a­betes man­age­ment.

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