Parents, critics demand fix to kids’ pain medication shortage ahead of Canada’s flu season
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Critics and parents are calling for action to address an ongoing shortage of some kids’ pain and fever medications ahead of flu season
Critics and parents are calling for action to address an ongoing shortage of some kids’ pain and fever medications ahead of flu season and a potential new COVID-19 wave.
Federal Conservative health critic Michael Barrett says the government has failed to do enough to ensure adequate supplies of children’s medications containing acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
He wants Ottawa to employ emergency tools that allow the importation of foreign medications that comply with Canadian regulations, noting that was already done with inhalers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The federal health minister said yesterday that Health Canada was “obviously concerned” about supply issues that for months have sent many parents scrambling to find products including kids’ liquid Tylenol and Advil.
Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said his department has been in touch with manufacturers, pharmacists and provincial and territorial governments and he cautioned Canadians against stockpiling drugs, insisting “the situation is under relative control.”
Still, many parents fear what lies ahead if the problem is not addressed soon, with Calgary mother Tara Collins noting she struggled to find medications when her sons fell ill last month and is running out of her own supply.
“(I’m) very concerned knowing I won’t be able to find the medicine my children will need to get through that cold, flu or even if we get COVID again,” said Collins, who has three children.
Becca Travadi, also from Calgary, said she resorted to non-medicinal treatments when her six-year-old recently fell sick and is uncertain what the fall and winter season could bring.
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