
Mother’s call for mandatory pharmaceutical error reporting in Canada gets weak response from federal health minister
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Mother’s call for mandatory pharmaceutical error reporting in Canada gets weak response from federal health minister
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August 27, 2017
Melissa Sheldrick’s son died because he was given the wrong medication and she is lobbying for a national strategy on mandatory pharmaceutical error reporting in Canada, but as she tells Angie Seth, the federal Health Minister’s response was not encouraging.
Mother’s call for mandatory pharmaceutical error reporting in Canada gets weak response from federal health minister
Description
August 27, 2017
Melissa Sheldrick’s son died because he was given the wrong medication and she is lobbying for a national strategy on mandatory pharmaceutical error reporting in Canada, but as she tells Angie Seth, the federal Health Minister’s response was not encouraging.
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