28 January 2020 - Two dozen ophthalmologists are accusing the B.C. government of failing to properly investigate concerns that a provincewide eye injection program could be putting patients at risk of developing severe glaucoma, according to a letter obtained by The Globe and Mail.

The letter also said that B.C.'s unique program for delivering the eye drugs – a program that pays a small group of retina specialists as much as $250,000 each annually, on top of billings that are already the highest in the province – has long been “clouded in secrecy.”

Eight months have passed since the NDP government announced that it would ask external experts to probe a possible link between glaucoma and injectable drugs taken by thousands of patients to ward off age-related macular degeneration, once the most common cause of irreversible blindness.

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