Governor Deval Patrick sharpened his criticism Thursday of the state Pharmacy Board’s oversight of the Framingham pharmacy linked to the national fungal meningitis outbreak, as his administration announced a new leader for the troubled department that oversees the board.
Patrick said that the board, at his direction, plans to revoke the licenses of New England Compounding Center and three pharmacists in charge, but that “it shouldn’t have taken death by meningitis to get there.”
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The a) mishandling of drug evidence at the Jamaica Plain Lab, and the national fungal menginitis outbreak due to the inadequate oversight of the Licensing Board, and inadequate monitoring of the Health Care Quality regulatory department - certainly cannot be blamed upon the former Commissioner, John Auerbach.
The breakdown of systems has been coming to a head over the past 15+ years and it is the fault of the 'specific' administrators' who are assigned to provide direction, supervision, and guidance to state employees within those areas! Sadly, due to their INCOMPETENCE they have made the entire country question the stupidity of the Dept. of Public Health in this state!