B.C. pharmacist who faked his COVID-19 vaccinations suspended for 30 days | 24CA News
A British Columbia pharmacist has been disciplined for claiming to be vaccinated towards COVID-19 and falsifying provincial well being information to cover his unvaccinated standing.
The College of Pharmacists of BC says on a put up on its web site that its inquiry committee has suspended Aftabahmed Shaikh for 30 days and positioned a everlasting letter of reprimand on his file.
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In the put up dated March 10, the school says Shaikh was practising in “various locations” in B.C., and admits to twice coming into COVID-19 vaccinations into his PharmaNet file with out receiving the pictures.
The school says its inquiry additionally discovered that Shaikh altered the pharmacy’s software program to make his information tougher to seek out.
The school says Shaikh’s actions had been “highly unethical and amounted to professional misconduct.”
It says the suspension and different penalties, together with a two-year ban on tutoring pharmacy college students, are “necessary to protect the public, (and) send a clear message of deterrence to the profession.”
The inquiry discovered Shaikh’s creation of faked PharmaNet information helped him get hold of a COVID-19 vaccine passport that might have been used to evade home and worldwide vaccine mandates in the course of the pandemic.
“The false vaccine passport could have put the public at increased risk of harm,” writes the school, including it considers Shaikh’s conduct a “serious matter.”
Shaikh’s suspension started on March 13 and the school assertion reveals he can be eligible to renew working as a pharmacist on April 11.
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