Pregnant woman could have lost baby after pharmacist dispensed wrong drug

The PSI’s Professional Conduct Committee heard the woman, known as Patient A, was dispensed the wrong medicine as a result of a locum pharmacist misreading a prescription from a hospital consultant. File photo: Denis Minihane

A pregnant woman, who had suffered multiple miscarriages, was mistakenly given a drug by a Dublin pharmacy which could have caused her baby to abort or suffer foetal abnormalities.

An inquiry by the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland heard the woman, known as Patient A, was dispensed the wrong medicine as a result of a locum pharmacist misreading a prescription from a hospital consultant.