The director of the state pharmacy board, James D. Coffey, has been fired and the board’s attorney, Susan Manning, has been placed on administrative leave for allegedly ignoring a complaint in July that New England Compounding Center was distributing bulk shipments of drugs to hospitals in Colorado, in violation of its state licenses, Massachusetts health officials announced Wednesday.
New England Compounding is the Framingham pharmacy blamed for a national outbreak of fungal meningitis caused by contaminated steroids it produced between May and August of this year.
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Yes, so they knew -- and that is hardly a surprise, is it?
Yes it's hardly a surprise. It's becoming all to clear that many in the MA Gov aren't doing their job either out of corruption or incompetence. Mostly they are just stealing money but in this case people died. So they fired him but only placed her on "administrative leave". Given the tragic results one would think any person with a conscience would have resigned. I assume the law suits will be arriving soon and since the state was "overseeing" things they or rather "we the tax payers" will be on the hook.