What’s up (or down) with drug shortages?

Our chronic shortages and the current vaccine situation remind us to ask why must we be buffeted about by unpredictable shortages, originating elsewhere and often impacting well established yet critical products, the recipes for which are neither secret nor protected.

In the face of pandemic threats to our medication supply, Canada has shown it can take temporary steps to protect our most critical medicines. Shouldn’t we now move to properly and permanently secure our supply with a national essential medicines list and revival of our own industry, ask Jacalyn Duffin and Jon Pipitone.Image courtesy Needpix.com

Opinion

BY JACALYN M. DUFFIN AND JON PIPITONE

February 8, 2021

With complaints and fears swirling around COVID-19 vaccine supply, we take up our devices once again to report on drug shortages in Canada. When we last communicated in Hill Times back in April 2020, Canada had already spent a decade facing severe shortages of prescription drugs. We argued ...

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