As recovery efforts at the North Carolina plant hit by Hurricane Helene move at an “encouraging pace,” Baxter International is laying out new details on a sweeping importation plan to help critical | Baxter has said the first IV product shipments cleared by the FDA for temporary importation are set to arrive in the U.

Baxter International began shipments of intravenous products to the United States from two international facilities last week, it said on Monday, as it works to bring a hurricane-hit plant in North Carolina back online amid a shortage of the essential medical product.

Baxter International's North Cove manufacturing facility was affected by Hurricane Helene. Here's how that impacts Topeka hospitals.