Posted on 05/22/2024 6:41:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Massachusetts pharmacist accused of causing a fungal meningitis outbreak that caused the deaths of 11 Michigan residents is set to go on trial for murder.
Livingston County Circuit Judge Matthew McGivney set a trial date for Nov. 4 for Glenn Chin who faces 11 counts of second-degree murder for his alleged involvement in the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Monday, May 20.
“Eleven Michiganders tragically lost their lives as a result of a lack of concern for patient safety,” Nessel said. “My department looks forward to finally seeking justice for the victims and their families in court.”
Chin, 56, of Canton, Massachusetts, was the supervising pharmacist at the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts, where the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak resulted in 64 deaths, 11 of which occurred at the Michigan Pain Specialists Clinic in Livingston County.
The Attorney General’s Office alleges that Chin disregarded sterility procedures, created fraudulent cleaning records and falsified scientific testing results.
Although testing repeatedly revealed the presence of mold or bacteria in the sterilized rooms used to mix the drugs to create the steroids the company sold, the company misrepresented the safety of its product, according to previous reporting.
Patients at the clinic were given epidural injections of the steroid methylprednisolone, which was compounded and produced at the compounding center and shipped to the pain clinic in Livingston County.
Donna Kruzich, Paula Brent, Lyn Laperriere, Mary Plettl, Gayle Gipson, Patricia Malafouris, Emma Todd, Jennie Barth, Ruth Madouse, Salley Roe, and Karina Baxter died as a result of being injected with the contaminated drug.
Codefendant and owner of the Massachusetts company, Barry Cadden, 57, pleaded no contest to 11 counts of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10-15 years in prison.
Related: Man sentenced 10-15 years for role in 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 11 in Michigan
Cadden was also found guilty in federal court of 57 criminal charges and sentenced to nearly 15 years in prison. His federal sentence began in August 2017.
As part of plea, Cadden’s state prison sentence will be served concurrently with his federal sentence.
Wow...”Chin disregarded sterility procedures, created fraudulent cleaning records and falsified scientific testing results.” which killed eleven people.
What a despicable scumbag.
When are the trials for Fauci and Birx.
If he’s convicted on 11 murder counts, he’s really going to take it on the Chin.
Cordyceps! Run!
Exactly. This Chin character is a piker in comparison to the damage done by Fauci and Birx.
That's it?!?!?! For causing all those deaths??????
Justice would be him getting injected with his own material.
I work in a pharmacy, and had to recently pass an exam which contained compounding techniques and how to clean compounding areas. It is really involved, and depends on the way air flows over the work surface. It either comes down and towards the compounder or laterally across the work surface from the compounder’s left to right. You have to be careful about how you place items on the surface as well, so air flow isn’t blocked.
Point is, if you’re too lazy to do this, you shouldn’t work in a compounding pharmacy. My company takes sh¡t like this seriously. He should be facing way more charges than this, fraud included, IMO. I wonder if the company he worked for will sue as well, because I doubt this underachiever owned his own compounding pharmacy. He probably recouped expenses for cleaning services which never occurred, and was likely paid for time he should have spent cleaning.
But, also, big surprise. Michigan. Around Detroit, it looks like.
Twelve years later.
Yeah, they along with others, killed exponentially more people.
Chin was obviously incompetent. Anybody compounding injectables for mass public use has to use industry acceptable techniques and testing of the batches for potency, and sterility, and safety... I used to make small batch pharmaceuticals and there is a lot of testing of all ingredients pre manufacture and post manufacture of the product and monitoring of the manufacturing process and sequestration of product before release. This was a Mickey Mouse operation. Just like Disney.
“Point is, if you’re too lazy to do this, you shouldn’t work in a compounding pharmacy”.
Makes one wonder how lazy distributors of hundreds (thousands?) of the new U.S. Marijuana pharmaceuticals will be responsible for their psycho-therapeutical products.
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