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.

The U.S. government and its agencies are providing recovery assistance and granting import waivers to Baxter International, which makes 60 percent of U.S. IV liquids, after its North Carolina factory was damaged by Helene.