Currency drop hits Egypt's medicine supplies, angering public

By Arwa Gaballa and Eric Knecht CAIRO (Reuters) - Pharmacies across Egypt are running short of medicines, some of them life-savers, as a plunge in the value of the Egyptian pound coupled with strict government price caps has made scores of products unprofitable to produce or import. The shortages include some cancer treatments as well as basic items like insulin, tetanus shots and contraceptive pills. Unable to raise prices above levels set by the Health Ministry but now paying roughly twice as