A New Wave of Shortages Plagues Texas Hospitals

June 15, 2022

(Texas Monthly) – The source of the dye shortage is a single manufacturing plant run by GE Healthcare in Shanghai. That facility shuttered during Shanghai’s two-month-long COVID-19 lockdown that lasted from April until earlier this month. GE Healthcare is one of only two major suppliers of IV contrast dye, so the shutdown left health care providers desperately short on a product used in a wide range of sometimes life-saving procedures, such as those to identify the location of a blood clot. It’s also used for cardiac catheterizations and cancer screenings. (Read More)