Pharmacist, Patient Groups Call for Inquest into B.C. Counterfeit-Pills Death


OTTAWA, March 22 /CNW Telbec/ – A coalition of Canadian pharmacists and patients today called on the Regional Coroner for Vancouver Island to hold an inquest into the death of a British Columbia woman who died apparently after taking counterfeit pills she ordered online from a purported Canadian internet pharmacy.

The Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA), Ontario Pharmacists’ Association (OPA) and Best Medicines Coalition (BMC) made the request by letter to Rose Stanton, Regional Coroner for Vancouver Island.

22 March 2007

 

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