From Globe & Mail, & Toronto Star.
Alert Peterborough Pharmacist discovers that prepared chemotherapy infusions supplied by Hamilton MARCHESE HEALTH CARE were diluted.improperly.
Marchese Pharmacy was bought in 1988 from Pharmacist Jack.Marchese by Pharmacist. Marita ZAFIRO.to become Marchese Health Care, 316 James st.North, Hamilton L8L 1H2.(near Lake Ontario).905-528-4214 .Marchese Health Care advertises "Infusion therapy".
Patients affected by Pharmacy error:
LONDON: 665
OSHAWA:34
PETERBOROUGH:1
WINDSOR:290.
CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE & GEMCITABINE involved.
(Cancer Care Ontario has not yet explained why hospital Cancer treatment supplies were ordered from a Hamilton pharmacy. Interesting that Hamilton JURAVINSKI Cancer Centre was not involved.)
