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A Portadown pharmacist who had repeatedly tried to sell his business has given a public undertaking never to practice as a pharmacist again after appearing before the Statutory Committee of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland.
Thomas Lee, who owned the pharmacy at 7 Church Street, Portadown, Co Armagh, appeared before the Committee on December 22, 2001 to answer complaints about the state of his premises made to the Society by the Department of Health's pharmacy inspector, Dr Michael Mawhinney. Mr Lee has since sold the business.
Dr Mawhinney inspected the pharmacy on July 6, accompanied by a professional standards inspector from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said Miss Horan, for the PSNI. They found that practices and premises fell well below the expected standards.
The inspectors found that the shelves and dispensing benches contained a large number of out-of-date and unlabelled medicines. Some appeared to be patients' returned items.
Guidelines on the safe storage of medical oxygen were breached. Full and empty cylinders were not separated,...