Currently in its third reading, Bill 60, would allow the appointment of directors to regulate for-profit clinics while hospitals could approve the outsourcing of specific surgeries and diagnostic procedures to these private medical facilities.
Some doctors had less than kind words about the messaging from the children's hospital—especially in the wake of the province dropping its mask mandate for healthcare settings.
The three-judge panel says a section of B.C.’s Child, Family and Community Service Act is unconstitutional, finding the legislation lacked safeguards to protect parents’ deeply personal medical information.
While drug shortages are not new to pharmacists, recent shortages of essential medications such as Children's Tylenol and Amoxicillin have impacted a larger population and gained significant media coverage across Canada.