A Gloucester County pharmacist’s license was temporarily suspended and her pharmacy was shut down after the state accused her of practicing unsafely, authorities announced Tuesday, July 7.
Nittal Lodha, owner and operator of Woodbury Family Pharmacy, operated in unsanitary conditions and interfered with patients’ rights to obtain their medications from pharmacies of their choice, leaving them to ration medications or forgo them altogether, New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport said.
Lodha disregarded patients’ requests to stop filling their prescriptions and transfer them to other pharmacies, Davenport said. She instead continued to fill the prescriptions herself with medications kept in unsanitary conditions; and to provide patients with the wrong dosages or dispense medications in packages with broken safety seals or missing pills, Davenport said…