{"id":50966,"date":"2015-05-31T19:26:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T11:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50966"},"modified":"2015-06-01T14:31:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T06:31:14","slug":"vancouver-pharmacys-licence-suspended-after-rat-and-mice-droppings-mould","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/31\/vancouver-pharmacys-licence-suspended-after-rat-and-mice-droppings-mould\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver pharmacy&#8217;s licence suspended after rat and mice droppings, mould"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50971\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50971\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rats.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rats.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rats-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/rats-900x599.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; A pharmacy in Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside has had its license suspended after inspectors say they found rat droppings, mould, and cockroach bait.<\/p>\n<p>The College of Pharmacists of B.C. has ordered the closure of Native Vancouver Pharmacy (on East Hastings Street) after it says it found serious sanitation, structural and patient health concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The college says believes the pharmacy poses a serious public and patient health risk and has ordered a suspension of its license effective June 12.<\/p>\n<p>During its inspection, the college says it found no hot running water, dim lights, possible structural building issues and a generally dirty, disorganized and dilapidated environment.<\/p>\n<p>The College says it will monitor the pharmacy over the next two weeks until the suspension takes effect, allowing patients time to move to new pharmacies and get new prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>The Native Vancouver Pharmacy declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; A pharmacy in Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside has had its license suspended after inspectors say they found rat droppings, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":50971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}