Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2019
Cancer doctors are calling for a permanent fix to drug shortages in Canada
5 August 2019 - Three chemotherapy cancer drugs face national shortages, putting pressure on health care providers.
The three drugs are all injected into patients' veins.
The federal government's drug shortage reporting website lists all three as experiencing national shortages, meaning the scarcity problem could affect patients throughout the country.
At hospitals in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, oncologists, pharmacists and nurses have all scrambled to find alternatives, make substitutions and share precious vials.
