A pharmacy in the United States that gave a pregnant woman the abortion drug misoprostol when she had been prescribed a fertility treatment has been fined $10,000 and two of its pharmacists penalised.
The penalties were issued last month for the incident that occurred in 2019 when the woman, Timika Thomas, a mother of four at the time, was undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) in an attempt to have another child.
She had just had two human embryos placed in her womb when the Las Vegas CVS dispensed the wrong prescription.
Thomas, 38, told CNA on Monday that when she realized what had happened, her first thought was, “They killed my babies.”
Two pharmacists, along with two technicians at the CVS, committed a series of mistakes that led to the abortion drug mistakenly being given to the patient, according to documents filed with the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy.
