12 May 2021 - Doubling the funding for drug-buying agency PHARMAC will save lives and allow more people to live well, a group lobbying the Government say.

Malcolm Mulholland, of Patient Voice Aotearoa, led a group taking a petition from Palmerston North to Parliament on Wednesday, asking the Government to double PHARMAC’s funding and to reform the organisation.

The petition, which had been signed by 100,000 people, was accepted by politicians in Wellington. The trip coincided with a “lie down for life” event at 11 locations across the country, where people laid on the ground to send a message to the Government that people would die without adequate access to modern medicines.

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