Probe after girl dies due to nut allergy

The pharmacy regulator has started an inquiry into a Dublin chemist that refused to give an emergency adrenaline pen to a mother whose 14-year-old daughter died minutes later on the street because of a nut allergy.

The Pharmacy Society of Ireland’s inspection and enforcement unit visited the Hamilton Long chemist on O’Connell Street yesterday.

Under 2003 Medicinal Products ‘emergency supply’ regulations, pharmacists are allowed in emergency circumstances “to supply certain prescription-only medicines without a prescription”.