Federal Health Minister Jean\u002DYves Duclos says Ottawa is willing to take steps if Canadians\u0027 supply of the diabetes drug is endangered
“All options are possible,” said Duclos, who was in B.C. this week to talk about the federal government’s national dental care program and for a joint news conference with Dix Wednesday about health care funding.
Dix said assistant deputy health ministers from across Canada have been meeting to discuss ways to close any loopholes that allow drugs in Canada from being improperly exported to the U.S.Article content Revelations that thousands of prescriptions were written by a single doctor, Dr. David Davison, who is licensed in Nova Scotia but lives in Odessa, Texas, prompted a review by the medical college in that province.Article content
It’s not illegal for a pharmacist to fill a prescription and send it to a patient in the U.S. Dix said it’s important that Canadians living in the States or those travelling there on holiday are able to get medication in an emergency.
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