In Lithuania, people have to travel across the country to get ahold of much-needed prescriptions.
Ednews informs via Euronews that 59-year-old electronic engineer Rytis Overlingas needs every day five medicines against high blood pressure and diabetes.
His pharmacy near Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, recently told him they had run out of them.
"For a long time I searched for those medicines all over Lithuania, until finally I managed to buy them at the other side of the country. But that was half a year ago," says Overlingas.
"I feel very bad, I am angry because these medicines are very effective. Therefore, I am completely dissatisfied that there is such a big problem with these medicines."
Overlingas however is not alone, nor is Lithuania. Europe is experiencing a shortage in vital medicines right across the continent.
A recent study by investigative journalist networks the MIIR and the EDJNet on selected EU countries found that shortage duration could amount to between 72-130 days for certain pharmaceutical products.