Health Minister Mark Holland has been calling round to United States officers to allow them to know that the Canadian authorities shall be guarding its medical drug provide after the U.S. moved to permit states to mass import drugs from Canada.
He says he’s obtained assurances that the U.S. authorities has no intention of triggering drug shortages in Canada.
Health Canada issued a readout of Holland’s conversations previously week with the U.S. secretary of well being and human providers and the American ambassador to Canada in regards to the resolution.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration introduced earlier this month that it might enable Florida to import hundreds of thousands of {dollars} price of prescription drugs from Canadian wholesalers as a manner to save cash on medicines which are dearer south of the border.
The resolution prompted instant considerations inside Canada’s pharmacy sector about what that may imply for Canadian provide.
Holland says Canada has current rules that can forestall wholesalers and different members of the Canadian drug trade from promoting drugs outdoors the home market if it may imply there’s not sufficient left for Canadians.
