Authorities fired the director of the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy after he failed to investigate a complaint against New England Compounding Center, the company at the center of a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak, state officials said on Wednesday.
NECC is linked to a meningitis outbreak that has infected more than 400 people and caused 31 deaths.
Massachusetts officials said they uncovered a complaint against NECC by Colorado pharmacy regulators just months before the outbreak. The complaint, which said NECC was distributing drugs without patient-specific prescriptions, was forwarded on July 26 to James Coffey, director of the Massachusetts pharmacy board.
Coffey failed to order an investigation or take any other action on the Colorado complaint, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's interim commissioner, Dr. Lauren Smith, said in a statement.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/08/massachusetts-pharmacy-board-head-fired-after-meningitis-outbreak/#ixzz2Be4OyzEM
NECC is linked to a meningitis outbreak that has infected more than 400 people and caused 31 deaths.
Massachusetts officials said they uncovered a complaint against NECC by Colorado pharmacy regulators just months before the outbreak. The complaint, which said NECC was distributing drugs without patient-specific prescriptions, was forwarded on July 26 to James Coffey, director of the Massachusetts pharmacy board.
Coffey failed to order an investigation or take any other action on the Colorado complaint, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's interim commissioner, Dr. Lauren Smith, said in a statement.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/08/massachusetts-pharmacy-board-head-fired-after-meningitis-outbreak/#ixzz2Be4OyzEM
The people involved in this medical error should be treated as criminals, at least for 31 counts of manslaughter. As a registered nurse, I can't imagine the horror of finding out that a healing remedy, steroids in this case for inflammatory pain, was actually blackish mold injected into a trusting patient. Brr, the chills...
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