PHARMACY regulators in California are deliberating about whether to suspend the licences of three Walgreens pharmacies near San Francisco, after it emerged that an employee who worked there for more than a decade had fraudulently posed as a pharmacist.
Kim T. Le is alleged to have handled more than 700,000 prescriptions at the pharmacies between 2006 and 2017 - more than 100,000 of which were for controlled substances.
During her time at Walgreens Le also administered vaccinations, counselled patients and supervised pharmacy technicians - but it has since emerged that she had falsely claimed to have graduated as a pharmacist in Nebraska, but was in fact using the credentials of another pharmacist with the same name who did not work at Walgreens.
A Walgreens spokesperson said Le's employment had been terminated in Oct 2017, adding that "upon learning of this issue we undertook a re-verification of the licenses of all our pharmacists nationwide to ensure that this was an isolated incident".
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