B.C. to limit sale of Ozempic to non-Canadian patients due to shortage

B.C.'s health minister plans to announce how the government will ensure patients in the province will have secure access to Ozempic.

While prescriptions of Ozempic to patients in the U.S. made up 15 per cent, the health ministry says Americans make up an average of 0.4 per cent of customers of other prescription drugs.

“I think this is an arrangement between prescribers and pharmacies. So I don’t think there’s anything necessarily particular about Nova Scotia except that that’s where the practitioners are,” Dix said in the news conference. Dix said at the time that the dramatic increase in demand for the diabetes drug was partly because of social media “influencers” who spoke about its weight loss benefits.Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.He said he asked PharmaCare, the publicly funded program that helps B.C. residents pay for some prescription drugs, to review the drug’s use by U.S. residents.

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