Ontario considering expanding pharmacists’ powers to treat more common ailments

Ontario is looking to grow nan responsibilities of pharmacists to let them to dainty much illnesses.

Health Minister Sylvia Jones says nan state is consulting pinch nan manufacture connected treating 14 much communal ailments specified arsenic a sore throat, shingles and immoderate slumber disorders.

Jones says nan authorities is besides looking astatine allowing pharmacists to bid and execute tests for strep throat, and to administer further vaccines for tetanus, diphtheria, pneumococcal, and shingles.

The state is besides considering giving drugstore technicians nan powerfulness to administer vaccines for hepatitis, rabies and meningitis.

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Jones says nan changes are being contemplated successful an effort to easiness nan load connected family doctors and hospitals, and to springiness patients much entree to wellness care.

The state expanded pharmacists’ scope of believe successful 2023 by allowing them to dainty and prescribe medicine for 19 ailments including pinkish eye, acold sores and urinary tract infections.