The college has suspended Amandeep Singh Khun-Khun for a total of 1,825 days, and ordered a letter of reprimand to be permanently placed on the college's register.
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A Vancouver pharmacist has been suspended for five years for writing phoney prescriptions, according to the College of Pharmacists of B.C.
The college has suspended Amandeep Singh Khun-Khun for a total of 1,825 days, and ordered a letter of reprimand to be permanently placed on the college’s register.
He also has to pay a fine of $15,000.
Khun-Khun used a physician’s name and licence number to create prescription authorizations for himself, without that doctor’s knowledge or consent, according to the latest decision posted in April.
Records indicated that he used the physician’s name to create nine prescription authorizations totalling 75 dispensed transactions, for prescriptions including Schedule I drugs, over-the-counter supplements and medical supplies, the college said.
In June 2019, Khun-Khun was fined $30,000 and suspended from practice for 540 days. The mailing address for his company, Khun-Khun Drugs, is a Shoppers Drug Mart in the South Granville area.
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Over three years, the Vancouver pharmacist processed more than 15,000 false prescriptions for vitamins and over-the-counter drugs on the PharmaNet records of seven individuals. But those seven people didn’t know anything about it.
Khun-Khun admitted he “directed pharmacy assistants to process transactions weekly on PharmaNet in order to artificially inflate the pharmacy’s prescription count.”
The inquiry also found that Khun-Khun had two full-time pharmacists working for him who “turned a blind eye” to what they knew or should have known was wrong because they were done without patients’ consent and were an improper use and access of personal information.
William Wanyang Lu and Jason Wong were both working for Khun-Khun full-time. Both now have letters of reprimand on their permanent registration file and were required to pass both an ethics course and the college’s law exam.
— With files from Daphne Bramham
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