Iqaluit – In Canada, 1 in 12 people live with a rare disease, and for most people affected, the cost of treatment is unaffordable. Canadians deserve a health care system that provides timely access to quality health services and medications, including effective drugs for rare diseases, regardless of where they live or their ability to pay. Mark Holland, Canada’s Minister …
Canada signs deal with Northwest Territories for Drugs for Rare Diseases
Agreement will improve access to, and affordability of, drugs for rare diseases Yellowknife – In Canada, 1 in 12 people live with a rare disease, and for most people affected, the cost of treatment is unaffordable. Canadians deserve a health care system that provides timely access to quality health services and medications, including effective drugs for rare diseases, regardless of …
Reducing Wait Times for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Procedures
TORONTO — As part of the Your Health plan, the Ontario government is taking the next step to make it easier and faster for people to connect to publicly-funded surgeries and procedures by adding approximately 60,000 gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy procedures at community surgical and diagnostic centres across the province each year. “When it comes to wait times for surgeries and procedures, the status …