Flying in children's meds from Türkiye to Alberta won't cure what ails us abpoli ableg yyc Column by RickyLeongYYC:
Premier Danielle Smith, Minister of Health, Jason Copping and Margaret Wing, CEO, Alberta Pharmacists’ Association provide an update on the government’s efforts to import children’s pain and fever medications. Taken on Monday, March 20, 2023 in Edmonton.The stuff finally arrived from Türkiye this year and it took time to get federal regulatory approval before it could hit pharmacy shelves.The effort cost Alberta taxpayers $80 million.
Something about that drug market had gone out of whack and it was impossible for many diabetics to affordably obtain doses of this life-saving drug.buy up Canada’s much cheaper supply of insulin and ship it over the border to the U.SThere didn’t appear to be any concern about how this could affect Canadian diabetics or how such a manoeuvre could throw the Canadian insulin market off-kilter and result in higher prices for everyone.
There are some debilitating market imbalances south of the 49th parallel that need serious rethinking.Similarly, while it’s all well and fine for Alberta to ship hundreds of thousands of doses of pain and fever-reducing medication from across the ocean, we may have unwittingly caused issues over there, as
In the end, this comes down to global supply — and in free economies, it’s private industry that churns out medications in concert with regulator oversight.
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