State AG: Nurse Took Medication From Lewisburg Hospital for Personal Use

State AG: Nurse took medication from Lewisburg hospital for personal use

LEWISBURG — A registered nurse at WellSpan Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg took fentanyl and midazolam home for personal use and replaced the medication with saline over four months, according to the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General.

Nueva Era drugstore reported that it was raided because it marketed the drug produced by the HLB Pharma laboratory.

There are three procedures at the same time as at least nine deaths are investigated. Justice raided the HLB Pharma laboratory on Thursday, questioned for being a producer of the contaminated fentanyl that investigates the death of nine people. The procedure was carried out at the facility that has its headquarters in the street Intendente Tomkinson, in the Buenos Aires party of San Isidro. In addition, by order of the Federal Court No. 3 of La …

The procedures were carried out in the HLB Pharma and Ramallo laboratories and in the Nueva Era drugstore. Ongoing research and cross-subspicions.

Officials of the Federal Police and officers of the 9th police station carried out an operation this Thursday in the Nueva Era drugstore, located in the Refinería neighborhood of Rosario. The measure was ordered by the Federal Court of La Plata, in the framework of a cause that investigates an outbreak of pneumonia that already caused nine deaths, possibly related to the use of contaminated fentanyl... Source

Following the criminal complaint filed by the National Administration of Medications, Food and Medical Technology (Anmat) this week in the wake of the deaths in the Italian Hospital of La Plata, where there was an outbreak of pneumonia associated with the use of contaminated fentanyl in intensive care units, which caused nine deaths, the Federal Justice ordered on Wednesday - as a first measure - the break-in of the drugstore “Nueva Era”, locate…