Alberta strikes deal to off-load remaining stockpile of controversial children's medicine

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The Alberta authorities has reached a woody to off-load what remains of its arguable stockpile of unused children's symptom and fever medicine.

Province paid $70 cardinal to a backstage supplier for the symptom and fever medicine

Aaron Sousa · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 27, 2025 3:48 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

The Alberta authorities has reached a woody to off-load what remains of its arguable stockpile of unused children's symptom and fever medicine.

Kristi Bland, with Alberta Health Services, says they are donating the medicine to the foundation radical Health Partners International of Canada.

Bland says shipments person begun and much are expected successful the coming months.

Jackie Cousins, president of Health Partners, says they enactment with partners to vessel medicine wherever it is needed, and confirms immoderate of the Alberta medicine volition spell to war-torn Ukraine.

The medicine has proven to beryllium problematic for Premier Danielle Smith's authorities aft it struck a woody for the medicine 3 years agone to capable a spread during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alberta paid $70 cardinal to a backstage supplier for the medicine but has since sat connected 1.4 cardinal bottles aft front-line wellness unit reported problems with it, including however the medicine's thicker consistency risked clogging feeding tubes.

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