Cancer drugs worth $465K discarded after P.E.I. hospital fridge malfunctions
A faulty pharmacy refrigerator at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown led staff to discard $465,000 worth of chemotherapy drugs out of an abundance of caution, Health P.E.I. says. Health P.E.I. CEO Dr. Michael Gardam says the ‘near miss’ involving drugs stored in a Queen Elizabeth Hospital pharmacy fridge did not lead to patients being harmed.…