It’s been nearly a month since Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her health minister held a news conference to announce a deal to import millions of doses of children’s pain medication from Turkey.
But the process has dragged on as the province and the drug manufacturer – Atabay Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals of Turkey – awaited Health Canada approval. And now there is the first sign of progress, after Health CanadaThe federal department authorized the importation of liquid paracetamol, which is another name for acetaminophen, for children aged 2 to 11. The authorization, which happened on Dec. 30, is limited to hospitals and not pharmacies and doesn’t include ibuprofen.
Charity Wallace, a spokesperson with Alberta Health Services, said in a statement that the government continues to work with Health Canada on approvals.of a new COVID-19 variant that is quickly gaining dominance in the United States.
Yay Alberta! 👏👏
That was last week's problem, We need Adult meds too. Keep up or get out of the way. Call an election.
You can't have a variant of a virus you have not even isolated and identified yet....
Try ivermectin. It's proven to work, and it's cheap.
Premier Smith gets the job done.
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