Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2019
Nine new parliamentary petitions launched for vital medicine
15 August 2019 - In the last 10 months alone, 11 petitions have been delivered to Parliament calling for medicines to be funded by Pharmac.
Today, another nine petitions have been launched by Patient Voice Aotearoa (PVA) members asking that life changing, saving and extending medicines be funded for diabetes, cystic fibrosis, bowel cancer, head and neck cancer, brain cancer, epilepsy/mental health, phenylketonuria, Fabry disease and Lynch syndrome.
“This latest round of petitions is indicative of a crisis” says PVA Chair Malcolm Mulholland. “It doesn’t matter which illness you name, there are so many unfunded medicines in New Zealand and Kiwis are missing out.
