A suburban St. Louis couple is suing Walgreens, claiming the pharmacy gave the woman a chemotherapy drug instead of prenatal vitamins, a mistake that led to a miscarriage.
The suit filed in federal court by Chanda and Courtenay Givens of St. Charles County seeks unspecified damages.
Chanda Givens sought to fill a prescription for the prenatal drug Materna on March sixth. The lawsuit says that instead, she was given Matulane, a chemo drug for treatment of Hodgkin’s disease.
Givens suffered a miscarriage a month later, and soon after that learned she had been given the wrong drug.
A Walgreen’s spokeswoman says the company has a multistep process to reduce the chance of human error. She declined to comment specifically on this case.