Regina pharmacist loses licence for administering expired COVID-19 shots
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A Regina pharmacist is barred from practicing after admitting to administering expired COVID-19 vaccines.
A Regina pharmacist is barred from practicing after admitting to administering expired COVID-19 vaccines.
In a Saskatchewan College of Pharmacy Professionals discipline committee ruling handed down last month, Gordon Matthews was stripped of his licence.
According to the committee's decision, Gordon Matthews was fired from his employer in November 2022 after allegations related to administering expired COVID-19 vaccines and the related record keeping.
The decision outlines how Matthews admitted to giving approximately 15 expired monovalent Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to patients.
Matthews administered the expired vaccines on or around Nov. 20 and 21, 2022 at a grocery store pharmacy in Regina.
He said he believed it was the correct vaccine at the time and did not notice any expiry label.
After he was confronted about the potential error, the college says Matthews altered the Nov. 20 and 21 consent forms to make it appear as though he administered a dose of the then-new bivalent vaccine, meant to give more protection against the dominant coronavirus strains at the time, rather than the older monovalent vaccine he in fact had delivered.
