EMINENCE, Ky. (WAVE) – Not even a late summer shower can slow down 5-year-old Raven. Watching her run around is both a sight Tabitha Drew is lucky to see and one she fears losing.
Raven is still recovering after her family’s pharmacy received a faulty package of Clonidine from a local pharmacy.
“I’m scared to give her the medicine she needs,” Drew said. “I’m scared it’ll happen again.”
She remained in the hospital for several days, receiving oxygen and Narcan.
“We’re human,” Drew said, “and people make mistakes, but if it was intentional and you knew you needed to take the medication off the shelf and you didn’t, then, yeah, that’s a very bad answer, because three kids have almost died from this.”
Drew is still searching for answers, but says he’s not alone. Jessica Field’s son, Levi, was the first to get sick.
She remembers the day it happened.
“As soon as I got there he was rolling his eyes,” Fields said. “He wasn’t responding to anything.”
Ms Fields told us she called Med Save on her way to the hospital – they denied any wrongdoing and she claims she hasn’t heard from them since.
“I understand they made a mistake, but they almost lost the lives of three children because they didn’t do their job properly,” Fields said.
Both Raven and Levi are recovering well, but their mothers are anxiously waiting to find out why this happened.
The Kentucky Board of Pharmacy determined that Eminence MedSave was not complying with FDA standards and ordered it to stop compounding and dispensing all compounded medications, including clonidine.
The investigation into Eminence’s MedSave Pharmacy is still ongoing.
“Until we close [the investigation] We’re not going to get the answers we really want,” Drew said.
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