Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network
A pharmacist’s 3-year campaign has finally achieved its goal of allowing people to donate their expensive unused medications to individuals who can’t afford them.
Though there are programs across the country that allow hospitals and health care facilities to accept donated medications, this will be the first piece of statewide legislation that will allow individuals to donate unused medication, excluding controlled substances.
The medication must be unexpired and in its original packaging in order to be donated. For now, the program will only be accepting up to 30 different kinds of medications, most of which will be oral chemotherapy drugs and medications for transplant patients – but legislators hope to expand the program to include more medications as the program grows.
The initiative has reportedly come to fruition thanks to the efforts of Phil Baker, the founder of Good Shepherd Pharmacy. Over the course of the last three years, his nonprofit pharmacy has specialized in putting costly medications that are donated by manufacturers into the hands of low-income or uninsured people for free or dramatically…
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