Taichung clinics face lawsuit over toxic prescriptions
Staff writer, with CNA
A group of 30 patients yesterday filed a class-action lawsuit against two traditional Chinese medicine clinics and a supplier in Taichung over toxic prescriptions that led to lead poisoning.
The group is seeking more than NT$1.27 billion (US$44.6 million) in compensation from Sheng Tang Chinese Medicine Clinic (盛唐中醫), Jiu Fu Chinese Medicine Clinic (九福中醫) and their supplier Hsin Lung Medicine Co (欣隆藥業), said the Consumers’ Foundation, which is helping the claimants with the lawsuit.
Twenty of the patients, ranging in age from five to 85 years old, received toxic prescriptions from Sheng Tang and 10 from Jiu Fu, the foundation said.