3.15pm
Wednesday 23 November 2022
Books – Tarek Samir:
The Public Prosecutor has ordered the referral to the Criminal Court of a pharmacist and her collaborator. For accusing them of intentionally injuring the two children, Iman and Sajada, with an injection in Alexandria, which led to their death, after the Public Prosecutor’s Office verified the testimony of 9 witnesses against them, and what was demonstrated by the complaints from the Legal Medicine Authorities, and what was found during the inspection by the Pharmacy Prosecutor’s Office on the scene of the accident and the surveillance of the monitoring machines contained therein, and what was admitted by the two defendants in their investigations.
The investigation concluded that the defendant, who works in a pharmacy, injected cefotaxime into the two female victims without testing its sensitivity, and is not authorized to practice as a human doctor, as injecting patients is an act affecting the human body, and it is forbidden to do so without obtaining a permit to practice the profession. Medicine, the hypersensitivity of the two girls to that substance led to complications which ended with a drop in their blood circulation and an insufficiency of their respiratory functions, which led to their death in the manner established by the anatomical report of their bodies issued by the Legal Medicine Authority.
The investigations confirmed that the defendant pharmacist participated with the other in the crime through instigation and assistance, as she incited her to inject the two girls while she was not qualified to practice medicine, and helped her by placing her in able to use the tools, materials and medicines necessary for the injections in the pharmacy, therefore the crime was committed on the basis of this instigation and that assistance.
Among the evidence invoked by the prosecutor against the two defendants was the testimony of the parents of the two victims, who confirmed that the pharmacy worker was the one who injected the drug into their daughters without testing their sensitivity. of the two victims was a result of hypersensitivity to the drug they were injected with, which caused complications in their bodies that ended in their death, and that the direct cause of death was their injection without conducting a sensitivity test.
And the prosecutor had found, during the inspection of the pharmacy, the remains of syringes, which the chemical laboratory report proved to contain the same active ingredient of the drug with which the two girls had been injected, and the defendant who worked in the pharmacy confirmed that these remains were the ones he used in the accident.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office also relied on the statements of the two defendants in the investigations, which led the defendant pharmacist to give the other the task of injecting the two girls with the aforementioned drug without testing its sensitivity. she injected them and signs and symptoms of allergy subsequently appeared, and the two defendants confronted the recordings and acknowledged their authenticity.
The prosecutor had appointed three female pharmacists inspectors from the Egyptian Medicines Authority, members of the committee formed by the prosecutor to inspect and inventory the contents of the pharmacy at the scene of the accident, and who confirmed with their testimony in the investigation that the pharmacists are not allowed to give patients injections, considering that this work is an authentic act of doctors alone, and it is not. also confirmed, through their inspection of the pharmacy, that there are several violations in it.
The Public Prosecutor challenged the defendant working in a pharmacy for exercising the profession of human doctor without being registered in the medical register, in contrast with the provisions of the law, as well as for exercising the profession of pharmacist without a license. The Public Prosecutor also instructed the pharmacist to allow the other to practice this profession in his name within the pharmacy.
The Public Prosecutor ordered the assignment of copies of one copy of the documents for the rest of the facts that emerged during the investigation. act independently.
