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CTV News The assistants have said that they noticed some of the IV bags arriving at their hospital filled with the chemotherapy drugs cyclophosphamide and gemcitabine appeared more full than others. They then tested the contents and discovered the bags ...
CBC.ca Last week, Marita Zaffiro, the president of Marchese Hospital Solutions, which supplied the chemotherapy drugs cyclophosphamide and gemcitabine , testified that the chemo was made according to Medbuy's contract. The four Ontario hospitals have told ...
CTV News It was later discovered through testing that the bags contained too much saline, which watered down the drugs cyclophosphamide and gemcitabine by up to 20 per cent. The pharmacy assistants have also said that they noticed that the Marchese bags ...
Sun News Network Craig Woudsma, who works at Peterborough Regional Health Centre, discovered the watered down bags of gemcitabine provided by Marchese Hospital Solutions when he noticed they needed to be refrigerated. That differed from the previous supply of ...
CBC.ca A staffer noticed a difference between Marchese's label for the chemo drug gemcitabine and the one from the previous supplier, Baxter. Woudsma said he began to question what the final concentration per millilitre was, which led to a series of phone ...
Mississauga Hospitals have said Marchese supplied diluted bags of chemotherapy medications gemcitabine and cyclophosphamide. Marchese maintained it provided the cancer...
