Health Canada faced a series of questions from MPs on the House of Commons Health Committee Tuesday over the ongoing children’s pain medication shortages, including whether the country should be building a stockpile of these pharmaceuticals or starting to produce its own supply.
Health Canada faced a series of questions from MPs on the House of Commons Health Committee Tuesday over the ongoing children’s pain medication shortages, including whether the country should be building a stockpile of these pharmaceuticals, or starting to produce its own supply.
Lucas assured the committee Health Canada has been working with stakeholders since the spring, and that it has a “solid foundation to address shortages,” but that “demand continues to outpace supply.” Further seeking to defend their handling of the situation, one Health Canada official told the committee that the issue of medication shortages — including antibiotics, anesthetics, intravenous drugs, and other pharmaceuticals — is longstanding, rather than an exceptional one this flu season.
“How can we address this problem? Because as an emergency room doctor, I was really friggin' frustrated with constantly, constantly having this process with drugs,” he said.During the hearing, Dr. Saad Ahmed, a physician and co-founder of Critical Drugs Coalition, said Canada needs to increase its quantity of domestically-produced medications to prevent future shortages, a move he’s been calling for since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Public Health Agency of Canada currently maintains a supply of certain pharmaceuticals to be used in national emergency situations, including sedatives and antibiotics, as part of its critical drug reserve. It currently does not include children’s acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
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