[Ontario] Paper Drug Cards Returning (For Some)

If you are a pharmacist in these cities, you may start seeing them again.

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Kenny

As a result of Ontario's Basic Income Pilot program, certain individuals will receive a paper-based drug eligibility card (remember those?!?).

If you are a pharmacist in these cities, you may start seeing them again:

• Hamilton, Brantford, Brant County (underway)
• Thunder Bay, along with the Municipality of Oliver Paipoonge, Township of Shuniah, Municipality of Neebing, Township of Conmee, Township of O’Connor, Township of Gillies (underway)
• The town of Lindsay (fall 2017) 

According to the government, these paper cards are a temporary measure.

More information about this Ontario Basic Income Pilot program can be found here:
https://www.opatoday.com/Media/Default/Eblast/Ontario%20Basic%20Income%20Pilot%20(OBIP)_August%2024%202017.pdf

​P.S. it is worth noting that technically any pharmacist could start receiving a paper-based card, as the patient could fill their prescriptions anywhere