The province on Wednesday unveiled that Saskatchewan health professionals will be permitted to offer medical services.

The changes in the Pharmacy Act would allow pharmacists to give out drug refills in the absence of doctors and offer a prescribed medicine in an urgent situation.

Pharmacists would not be allowed to analyze patients or provide new prescriptions. But they will be allowed to change dosages, formulation and duration of medicines; the health professionals would be permitted to administer vaccines or injections and other laboratory tests.

"It'll cover pretty much every regular style prescription drug that, for example, they'll be able to extend if the patient runs out of their medication”, said Ray Joubert, the registrar of the Saskatchewan College of Pharmacists.

According to the Health Minister Don McMorris, the new planned rules would help tackle the problem of asthma patients in case of an emergency as health professionals will see patients in the absence of doctors.