Feds to spend $1.5B over three years to improve access to drugs for rare diseases | 24CA News

The federal authorities says it’ll spend as much as $1.5 billion over the following three years to enhance entry to medicine used to deal with uncommon ailments.

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says as much as $1.4 billion of that cash might be used to assist provinces and territories broaden protection of latest and present medicine that deal with uncommon ailments.

The federal authorities says it desires to create an inventory of latest and rising medicine for uncommon ailments that may be coated in an identical approach by all provincial and territorial medical insurance plans.

Another $52 million might be used to collect proof on the protection and effectiveness of those medicine in addition to for analysis on diagnostic instruments and making a scientific trials community.

And $33 million will go to Indigenous Services Canada to assist eligible First Nations and Inuit sufferers with uncommon ailments

The authorities says one in 12 Canadians has a uncommon illness, and that revolutionary remedies for these ailments can price between $100,000 and $2 million per yr.