After death of a 57-year-old woman from Vancouver Island, one should be very careful about buying drugs online. Some Health agencies and experts in Canada have given some guidelines to people who are interested in buying drugs through Internet.
Health Canada warns that consumers have no way of tracing these companies or finding out how to reach them if they have a problem. Health Canada warns consumers that buying drugs from these websites could lead you to death. These websites could deliver expired drugs, drugs with the wrong ingredients, drugs with dangerous additives etc. to you. So be very careful while taking these drugs!
There are some Dos and Don’ts are given bellow that is suggested by the Canadian International Pharmacy Association (CIPA):
Patient should be aware of the Canadian pharmacy’s name, address, phone number, license number, and province where the pharmacy is licensed.
To ensure that the pharmacy is a legitimate Canadian pharmacy the patient can contact the provincial pharmacy regulatory agency. Alberta-ww.phamacists.ab.ca
British Columbia-www.bcphamacists.org
Manitoba-www.mpha.mb.ca
If you are seeing that Pharmacy is practicing wrongly , you can file complaint against the Pharmacy in provincial pharmacy regulatory agency.
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