Alberta mulling plan to ship pain medication imported from Turkey to Ukraine

Alberta is weighing a plan to ship hundreds of pallets of children’s medicine it imported from Turkey to Ukraine, offloading the drugs that were part of a $70-million deal that is under scrutiny, according to government briefing notes obtained by The Globe and Mail.The province has been storing roughly 1.4 million bottles of acetaminophen and ibuprofen, manufactured by Turkey’s Atabay Pharmaceuticals, at a third-party warehouse, according to the government briefing documents, after officials in 2023 halted use of some of the medicine as a safety precaution. Alberta estimates it would cost $275,000 to transport the 512 pallets to Ukraine using a commercial freight company, according to the documents.