A Bahraini woman was put on trial after a pharmacist serving at a public pharmacy accused her of misconduct.

A Bahraini medical doctor convicted of prescribing medicines from a public pharmacy in bad faith has appealed against one year sentence.  The defendant was earlier sentenced to one year in prison, but her punishment was replaced with social service. However, her keenness to clear herself from wrongdoing saw her appealing her verdict before the High Appeals Court, which decided to review her case on 18th September 2018. 

The Bahraini woman was put on trial after a pharmacist serving at a public pharmacy accused her of misconduct. The pharmacist was in charge of dispensing medicines prescribed by doctors for patients and he notified her superiors that the physician was issuing medication in bad faith.  

“She was prescribing certain types of medicines to her patients and tell them to come back to her after they obtain them from the hospital pharmacy. And she would later seize some of them under the pretext that they weren’t suitable for them now,”  the pharmacist told prosecutors earlier. “She also gave prescriptions for children containing medicines for adults. When I asked her why she was issuing medication that exceeds patients’ needs, she replied ‘good you notified me’,” he revealed. 

“She also gave prescriptions for children containing medicines for adults. When I asked her why she was issuing medication that exceeds patients’ needs, she replied ‘good you notified me’,” he revealed. “I also noticed that she was forging the prescriptions on the system to show the patients, in fact, received two types of medicines,” he continued. 

The doctor was referred to the Public Prosecution after a commission of inquiry probed her case, and confirmed the wrongdoing.   The defendant was accused of seizing the medicines and sell them in her own private clinic. She is said to have bagged BD9,868 worth of medicine between 2015 and 2016.