{"id":121301,"date":"2024-11-02T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121301"},"modified":"2024-11-02T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:37:46","slug":"as-hospitals-struggle-with-iv-fluid-shortage-nc-plant-restarts-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121301","title":{"rendered":"As hospitals struggle with IV fluid shortage, NC plant restarts production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The western North Carolina plant that makes <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2024\/10\/helene-ravaged-the-nc-plant-that-makes-60-of-the-countrys-iv-fluid-supply\/#gsc.tab=0\">60 percent of the country&#8217;s intravenous fluid supply<\/a> has restarted its highest-producing manufacturing line after being ravaged by flooding brought by Hurricane Helene last month.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s an encouraging sign of recovery as hospitals nationwide struggle with shortages of fluids, supply is still likely to remain tight for the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>IV fluid maker Baxter Inc, which runs the Marion plant inundated by Helene, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baxter.com\/baxter-newsroom\/hurricane-helene-updates\">said Thursday<\/a> that the restarted production line could produce, at peak, 25 percent of the plant&#8217;s total production and about 50 percent of the plant&#8217;s production of one-liter IV solutions, the product most commonly used by hospitals and clinics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecovery progress at our North Cove site continues to be very encouraging,&#8221; Baxter CEO and President Jos\u00e9 Almeida said. &#8220;In a matter of weeks, our team has advanced from the depths of Hurricane Helene\u2019s impact to restarting our highest-throughput manufacturing line. This is a pivotal milestone, but more hard work remains as we work to return the plant to full production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Baxter said it is ahead of its previously projected timeline for getting the massive plant back up and running. Previously, the company said it had aimed to produce 90\u2013100 percent of some products by the end of the year. Still, the initial batches now under production are expected to start shipping in late November at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p>One of the many challenges to restoring the facility was the lack of access to the site; Helene had damaged an access bridge. In its latest announcement, Baxter said that a temporary bridge\u2014built with support from North Carolina&#8217;s Department of Transportation and the federal Administration of Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR)\u2014has allowed the transport of more than 885 truckloads of existing inventory out of the plant since Helene. \u00a0A second temporary bridge, expected to be completed in early November, will enable further access of traffic and equipment to the site.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/health\/2024\/11\/as-hospitals-struggle-with-iv-fluid-shortage-nc-plant-restarts-production\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The western North Carolina plant that makes 60 percent of the country&#8217;s intravenous fluid supply has restarted its highest-producing manufacturing line after being ravaged by flooding brought by Hurricane Helene &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121301\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}