Las Vegas clinic pleads for IV bags amid nationwide shortage [Video]

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – A Las Vegas clinic has taken to social media to ask for help to get IV bags and saline supplies for its patients, all amid a nationwide shortage caused by Hurricane Helene damage.

Federal authorities are working with company Baxter, who manufactures 60% of the nation’s supply, to get limited quantities to facilities across the U.S. and to patients that need IV fluids the most.

Private practices that require saline solution for their patients are hurting from the shortage, according to the Nevada State Medical Association. Some patients in need may have to be sent from a practice to a hospital to get an IV and saline solution, according to the president of the NSMA.

“We are now calling around to places that tend to use IV fluids in abundance and seeing if they can spare us a box…We had a lot of them promise …