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11-18-2004, 05:59 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 66
| | | need help of the Canadians on here please
Hi all my nurse just got back from a big diabetes forom for Canada and shes saying lantus is still not going to be here in Canada for sometime...seems the goverment cant get it together to come up with a price its comparing lantus to nph or another slow acting insulin...if everyone could pleae write to George Smitherman the new person head over health and state why we need this insulin here i think it would be greatly appreciated..thanks  |
11-18-2004, 06:11 PM
|  | Ex-moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,919
| | Hi Deb 
I'd be glad to write. Do you have a mailing address/email address? I could prob rustle it up myself but I'm feeling rather lazy right now..... 
Ah, gotta love Health Canada 
Shy |
11-18-2004, 06:50 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 66
| | | Hey Shy sure thing ill be posting one here and thanks sooo much i should have it on here tomorrow |
11-18-2004, 07:03 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,318
| | Maybe all of us here should write to him and explain about how he should be helpin' those of us with diabetes and how he doesn't want to be know as.............oops 
Well anyway maybe we all should write.
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11-18-2004, 07:26 PM
|  | Member | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 129
| | I'm in also post that link, I have been waiting for awhile for Lantus and now there pulling this?!  |
11-19-2004, 04:07 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 66
| | | Hey all thanks for the great posts i called the MPP office and they give me the addy to mail or an email addy so here they are i hope i took them down correctly (im sure i did)
gsmitherman.mpp@liberial.ola.org
better just do the email one im missing part of the address |
11-19-2004, 04:48 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Paris, France
Posts: 259
| | | Lantus has been completely approved by Health Canada for well over a year now. Last i heard, it wa AVENTIS that was slow on the uptake.
Andrea |
11-19-2004, 06:30 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 66
| | | Well Lantus might be approved but the government is slowing up the release of it because of pricing it...my endo and nurse were at the huge diabetes in Quebec city a few weeks back and she did say that there is no date of its release here due to the pricing thing with the goverment...so she suggested i tell everyone i can to write the health minister about this |
11-19-2004, 06:45 PM
| | Ex-moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,919
| | OK deb, one email off to the devil's follower.  I hope that we can get enough Canadian support to see Lantus reach the market in record time!
I'm wondering if it might be more effective for those of us outside of Ontario to write our own Minister's of Health, or even the Federal Minister or Deputy Minister?  Andrea, great to see you again 
Shy |
11-20-2004, 04:28 AM
| | Member | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Paris, France
Posts: 259
| | Thanks Shy,
This Lantus story still kills me. Lantus has been used in some countries since 2001. We are almost in 2005 and it is still not available to canadians. I know some people in Ontario who have their doctors write lantus prescriptions and they go across the boarder to buy thier insulin in the US.
One more reason that everyone should go on the pump!! That way we no longer have to deal with long acting insulins!!
Andrea |
11-20-2004, 08:32 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hogwarts, Hobbiton, the Galactic Milieu &Ks when I have to be here
Posts: 4,318
| | | Will it help if he gets e-mail from ouotside of Canada?
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11-20-2004, 09:57 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 66
| | | Hey guys sorry for not getting back and yes i think everyone should email george smitherman no matter where you are, and shy yess others in other provinces as well ...i really appreciate the help with this ...im hoping in a short period of time lantus will be here to |
11-21-2004, 03:50 AM
| | Ex-moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,919
| | OK Deb, I emailed Gary Mar (Alberta's Minister) as well as the Federal Minister. If anyone wants to email the Fed. Minister themselves, go to the Health Canada website that I've linked, and there's an email page. I have my doubts about anything reaching this guy (I'm sure he's got staff that reads his email or something lol) but it's worth a shot
rzr, I doubt that an email from outside of Canada would do much good lol, but it's very nice of you to ask Hmmm, though, you wouldn't have to say where you're from.......
Oh, I forgot to mention on my last post, there's a typo in the posted email for this man. I C+P'd and couldn't figure out why it had been sent back to me lol. If anyone else does this, just remove the extra "i" from "Liberal" and it's good to go!
Shy |
11-21-2004, 06:34 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 66
| | | Sorry about the typo man i hate that ..hence the bad eye sight and bad spelling do not make a good match LOL..anyways heres the right addy with no type os LOL
gsmitherman.mpp@liberal.ola.org |
11-21-2004, 08:51 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Ohio
Posts: 551
| | | If Canadian officials are anything like US officials, old fashioned paper mail and phone calls make more of an impression on them than emails do. A classmate of mine works in a Congressman's office. He told me that one paper letter means as much as 50 emails and a phone call follow up adds 25 to that. Taking the time to compose and write a letter, address an envelope, buy a stamp and mail it shows that you believe enough in an issue to put effort into it. It takes no money and only a few seconds to fire off an email. A follow-up phone call helps because talking to them helps make you a real person in their mind. It's harder to brush off or ignore someone you're talking to.
David |
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