Shipments of drugs from Sandoz Canada, suspected of being mislabelled, have been cleared by the Ministry of Health.
When asked if it was emergency over DeborahDunn-Roy with Health Shared Services BC said “From BC’s prespective, Yes, we did act very quickly on Wednesday as soon as we heard there might be a problem to pull back all of the two milligram morphine that was in the province once that affected lot was identified we were able to very quickly find the 138 boxes from that lot and remove them from circulation.”
She adds no patients were affected “No, BC is actually not a large user of this particular size and we certainly have other volumes of morphine available and as you know over the last few weeks we have already been using different volumes and different means of delivery and we certainly have enough morphine in the system for now”
Dunn-Roy says the province is also dealing well with an overall shortage of some injectable narcotics, like Morphine.
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