Alberta-imported kids pain meds finally in the province | 24CA News
The Alberta-imported, Turkish-made youngsters’s acetaminophen is now obtainable at pharmacies across the province, provincial officers stated Monday afternoon.
“They’re still being distributed around the province,” Health Minister Jason Copping stated, noting it was on the Edmonton drug retailer the federal government staged the announcement at.
One third of the 750,000-bottle order from Atabay Pharmaceuticals has arrived in Alberta and Copping stated the remaining shipments might be coming to the province by the top of the month.
Alberta introduced the deal to safe 5 million bottles of youngsters’s ache and fever medication from Atabay in early December 2022.
Four and a half months later, Copping admitted “it has been challenging for everyone and it has taken a little longer than we hoped for it to arrive.”
Premier Danielle Smith referred to as it a “painstaking and rigorous process” to get the liquid acetaminophen cleared by Health Canada, a course of that included new English-French bilingual packaging.
The first cargo of 250,000 bottles went to hospitals throughout the province in January.
Smith and Copping stated there proceed to be provide chain challenges in getting different youngsters’s drugs.
“We have secured a stable supply of this medication for years to come, ensuring that Alberta isn’t as susceptible to global supply chain disruptions in the future,” Smith stated.
The well being minister stated when the province canvassed drug producers overseas, the Istanbul-based producer was the one one prepared to fill Alberta’s order.
Read extra:
Feds approve Alberta authorities importation of youngsters’ ache drugs however confusion lingers
Sold underneath the model title “Parol,” the glass-bottled youngsters’s ache reliever might be at a decrease focus than what’s generally discovered, an Alberta Blue Cross memo stated. Because of the totally different focus, it have to be stored behind the counter and pharmacists should educate dad and mom and/or caregivers the way to administer the drug.
Parol has a two-year shelf life.
Copping additionally introduced the primary cargo of youngsters ibuprofen had arrived within the nation and was going via the federal quarantine course of.
© 2023 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
