Scott Moe’s Saskatchewan Party promises to extend diabetes coverage if re-elected

The person of the Saskatchewan Party says helium would widen sum for insulin pumps and diabetes supplies to seniors and young adults should helium beryllium re-elected premier connected Oct. 28.

Scott Moe says his erstwhile authorities followed done with a 2020 predetermination committedness to supply sum astatine nary outgo for continuous and flash glucose monitors for children and younker nether property 18.

He says sum would beryllium extended to young adults up to the property of 25 and seniors aged 65 and older if the Saskatchewan Party wins government.

Moe says glucose monitoring tin assistance amended wellness and prime of life.

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About 9,000 seniors and 700 young adults betwixt the ages of 18 and 25 are expected to payment from the projected hold of coverage.

In 2023, Diabetes Canada estimated 27 per cent of Saskatchewan’s colonisation lives with immoderate signifier of diabetes.