12:07 PM
Saturday 08 October 2022
Alexandria – Mohamed Amer:
Mina al-Basal Prosecution in Alexandria decided to renew the detention of a pharmacist and two other pharmacy workers for 15 days pending investigation, in the case of the death of the two girls, “Iman and Sajda.”
The prosecution charged the workers with practicing the profession of pharmacy without a license, accusing the pharmacist of allowing them to do so, as well as accusing the worker of giving the two victims a drug that caused their death.
And first, when the Mina Al-Basal Police Department received a report from the mother of the two girls, Iman and Sajda Muhammad Mahmoud Saad Al-Najjar, accusing the owner and worker of a pharmacy of causing their death after they received a drug in the pharmacy.
By asking the mother, she said in the investigations that she went to a pharmacy next to her place of residence in the Bashair al-Khair area to dispense a prescription for treatment for the two girls, as they suffer from a high temperature and a cold.
She pointed out that the pharmacist prescribed an alternative drug to the blogger with the treatment prescription, but she tried to search for the original treatment but could not find it, so she had to return to the pharmacy to receive her daughter’s alternative treatment.
The mother added that the woman working inside the pharmacy injected her two daughters with “antibiotics” without testing them before the injection, so they felt very ill and were taken to the hospital, where they died instantly.
The necessary report of the incident was issued at Mina Al-Basal Police Department, and the Public Prosecution ordered the seizure and search of the pharmacy, and the assignment of a specialized committee to review its licenses and examine its drugs.
Representative Mahmoud Qassem, a member of the House of Representatives, submitted an urgent request for briefing to Counselor Hanafi Jabali, Speaker of the House of Representatives, addressed to Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Health, regarding the death of the two girls.
The deputy called for the immediate cessation of drug dispensing or injections in pharmacies without a prescription approved by a certified doctor, and the formation of immediate committees to pass on pharmacies to ensure that those working in pharmacies are doctors licensed to work, and that they rely on approved prescriptions for their dispensing of medicine.