Lower reimbursement rates from the taxpayer for medical equipment and tightened credit markets are crimping the ambition of hospital administrators in rich countries.

And a walk-in closet once filled with medical equipment including oxygen tanks is seen to be empty.

It supplies medicines and medical equipment to oil rigs and the shipping industry, and has a wholesale and distribution business.

Yesterday he promised to sell the presidential yacht and spend the proceeds on medical equipment for soldiers and police.

Much of the medical equipment is gone.