A 29-year-old pharmacist has reportedly filed a lawsuit against the Volta River Authority Hospital in Aboadze, Western Region, after allegedly being injected with the wrong drugs.
The pharmacist, seeking GH12 million in damages, claims to have suffered mental and physical incapacitation due to the administration of IM Atracurium 50mg instead of Antigen D.
However, there are conflicting reports, with some suggesting that the pharmacist rejected the prescribed medicine as it was deemed expensive and opted for drugs from her workplace, which were administered by a nurse without proper verification.
“VRA hospital prescribed a drug she needed. She said theirs was too expensive, so she’ll get it from the hospital she works at instead. She got someone to bring the drug from her hospital.
“The wrong drug was sent to her. She didn’t check. She kept the drug in her hospital fridge and told no doctor or nurse on duty about it.
“In the evening, after the shift change, a VRA nurse who attends the same church as her was on duty. She told the nurse to take the drug from the fridge and inject her with it. The nurse didn’t check the drug either. Possibly presumed she was a pharmacist and knew what she needed.
“Sometime after the injection, she began to have seizures. She ended up in her current state. The hospital took care of her bills & sacked the nurse. She later returned to sue the hospital for using the wrong drug she brought to them,” the second account said.
