28 August 2019 - From the time she was diagnosed with an ultra-rare metabolic disorder as a toddler, Olivia Little has relied on prescription eye drops to keep the disease from destroying her eyesight.

The nine-year-old Ontario girl’s drops used to be made at a hospital pharmacy and a special pharmacy in Quebec at a cost of, at most, a few thousand dollars a year.

But those pharmacies are no longer supposed to concoct the drops in-house, now that Health Canada has approved an Italian pharmaceutical company’s application to sell an official version that Olivia’s parents cannot hope to afford.

The sticker price: $103,272 for a year’s worth of eye drops.

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