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Craigavon Magistrates Court<\/p>\n
A Portadown nurse who ran a home aestetics clinic has been fined \u00a3720 (plus offender levy) after admitting nine offences under medicines regulations.<\/p>\n
Registered Nurse<\/a>, Nafeyka Chavdarova, 44, appeared at Craigavon Magistrates Court where she pleaded guilty to nine charges on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The Court<\/a> heard that in March 2024 enforcement officers from the Department of Health’s Medicines Regulatory Group (MRG) visited the defendant\u2019s home at Clendenning Avenue, Portadown. It was here where they discovered and seized a range of unlicensed prescription medicines intended for sale or supply from the address \u2014 which was operating as an aesthetics clinic.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Police concerned for welfare of man last seen in Lisburn on weekend<\/a>READ MORE: NIFRS respond to gas leak at M&S Abbey Centre, Co Antrim<\/a><\/p>\n The charges related to the unlawful possession of prescription medicines intended for sale or supply, which included, injectable Botulinum toxin type A, Hydroxocobalamin, Hyaluronidase and Lidocaine.<\/p>\n In addition, MRG officials also established that the defendant had been unlawfully advertising prescription medicines.<\/p>\n Peter Moore, Senior Medicines Enforcement Officer with the Department of Health who directed the investigation, said: “This conviction sends a clear message that there are consequences if a person attempts to bypass the regulated system and controls which are in place to ensure public safety and integrity of the medicines supply chain.<\/p>\n “I would urge people to consider the implications of buying drugs online or from dubious sources \u2013 there is no way of knowing what you are buying is what you think it is, and this can have serious consequences for your health.”<\/p>\n Aaron McKendry, Interim Head of Medicines Regulatory Group, added: “It is extremely important that people take prescription only medicines after consultation with their GP, pharmacist or other healthcare professional who have access to patient health records and can consider the risks and benefits associated with every medicine.<\/p>\n “The Department is committed to taking all possible steps to stop the illegal promotion, supply or misuse of medicines and when appropriate, to alerting the public about the dangers of using medicines outside of the regulated supply chain.”<\/p>\n For all the latest news, visit the Belfast Live homepage <\/strong>here<\/a> and sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The nurse pleaded guilty to nine charges Rob Currell Live news reporter 07:29, 19 Mar 2026 Craigavon Magistrates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[30,34912,105,4326,73832,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-836733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-department-of-health","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-portadown","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116257248199972969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}