TORONTO – Ontario will introduce legislation that would authorize the province’s College of Pharmacists to inspect and license hospital pharmacies.
Health Minister Deb Matthews says she’ll bring in the bill in the fall.
An expert study recommended that Health Canada regulate all drug preparation entities, such as Marchese Hospital Solutions.
The company came under fire after it was discovered that about 1,200 patients in Ontario and New Brunswick received diluted chemotherapy drugs.
Marchese provided the drug-and-saline mixtures that supplied four hospitals in Ontario and one in New Brunswick.
The company fell in a jurisdictional grey area, with the federal government and the college of pharmacists unable to agree on who was responsible for the facility.
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