Bodoe says Ministry working to resolve CDAP drug shortages

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Health Min­is­ter Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe has as­sured the pub­lic that the min­istry is work­ing to ad­dress short­ages of drugs un­der the Chron­ic Dis­ease As­sis­tance Pro­gramme (CDAP), say­ing 49 of the pro­gramme’s 52 drug items are cur­rent­ly avail­able.

Bo­doe gave the up­date yes­ter­day be­fore Par­lia­ment’s Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee (SFC), where he an­swered ques­tions from Op­po­si­tion MPs Colm Im­bert, Stu­art Young and Hans Des Vi­gnes on the Min­istry of Health’s $7.474 bil­lion al­lo­ca­tion in the 2027 Bud­get.