A Pearland woman claims her fiancé is not getting the proper medication he needs in the Harris County Jail to treat his high blood pressure and prevent him from going into cardiac arrest.
Poole said he has high blood pressure and needs to take his prescribed hypertension medicine daily. Poole also added that her fiancé told her he’s been given a different medicine in jail, which is causing adverse reactions.
“He said he’s breaking out in cold sweats. He’s breaking out in hives. He’s having all types of side effects,” Poole said. “And when I try to reach out to anyone to show them his medical records, no one is answering the phone.” “They didn’t care. They wouldn’t even receive the information. Wouldn’t receive the medical records and then they gave me a generic number to call which was the same number that I’ve been calling,” Poole said.
“He was saying we just had a person die in here because he didn’t receive the medication, and he’s saying I’m praying that this doesn’t happen to me,” she said.“Harris Health provides medications to people in jail. We do not accept any form of medications from outside sources because of safety concerns. We circumvent these risks by offering the prescribed and verified medication of choice from our pharmacy.
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