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Ghada Haggag, a pharmacist who owns All Care Pharmacy in Capilano, says parents are no longer going on exhaustive searches to find the medicine.
She had 10 bottles of formulations for different age groups on the shelves of her small pharmacy on Tuesday morning.
"It is way better than November or December," she said. "It's slowed down. Because the stock is everywhere now."...
..."We don't need it," she said of the Turkish drug shipment. "We don't need to pay extra for it or to push for it. I don't think there is an urgent demand for it now."
Aidan Hollis is a University of Calgary economics professor who researches competition and innovation in pharmaceutical markets.
He says the province should have consulted with Health Canada about regulatory timelines and talked to private wholesale importers about their supply before making the purchase...
...Hollis said the province will likely "take a bit of a bath" on the cost of buying so much of the product.
"Which means the taxpayers of Alberta will be the ones paying the price," he said.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ssed-1.6717329
How do the fiscal conservatives feel about this one? Smart move by a brilliant tactician, or just another Smith screw up?