Ottawa: Parents are struggling to find pain and fever medicines for their children due to the rise in respiratory diseases. But in the meantime, On Monday, Health Canada announced that it has made arrangements to supply the children’s acetaminophen drug from abroad.

In the coming weeks, this supply will be available for retail purchase and parents will also be able to get it from community pharmacies. In addition to this supply, Health Canada has also recently approved the import of ibuprofen and acetaminophen medicines for newborns and young children to make them available to Hospitals in Canada. The agency has also claimed that the supply of Ibuprofen has been imported and it is being distributed.

Meanwhile, Health Canada has also appealed to parents not to collect the medicines after seeing the supply on the shelves of the store as there is still a shortage of these medicines and this can cause inconvenience to other needy parents.

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Ottawa: Amidst shortage of children’s medications including Tylenol, doctors are advising parents to not give expired medicine to their sick children under any circumstances.

Apart from this, parents are also being asked to talk to trusted health professionals to find a solution to their children’s disease and their anxiety.

The families are also being advised not to buy medicines in panic and also to take care that there are many other options for the treatment of children. In such a chaotic environment, even those who actually need this drug can be harmed. Health Canada had earlier confirmed a deficiency of the children’s painkiller Tylenol in mid-August. These included liquid tylenol and chewable acetaminophen tablets for children.

According to Daniel Pace, chief pharmacist officer of the Canadian Pharmacists Association, the shortage of this drug has arisen due to increased demand.

He said that the production of this medicine is also being over-produced, but due to the high demand, there is shortage of this drug. Now the children have returned to the schools and this has made the parents afraid of getting many types of viruses to the children.

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Ontario: Sylvia Jones, deputy premier and minister of health today announced that she is not ruling out privatization as the government considers ways to deal with a major staff shortage straining hospitals, but she stressed such a change wouldn’t be coming any time soon.

She said that the Canadian government is exploring different options in a bid to keep emergency departments from closing.

When asked if the government is considering privatization, Jones said “all options are on the table. We will explore other options.”

Interim NDP leader Peter Tabuns said that privatisation of health care would be a disaster for Ontario.

Ontario Opposition New Democratic Party health-care critic France Gélinas said it is a horrific to know that privatization is under consideration.

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