A MUM says she is furious with a pharmacy for telling her seven-year-old son to leave after he was sick on the floor.

Debbie Bagley and her son Liam were told to leave Village Pharmacy in Main Road, Hextable, on Tuesday after he vomited four times inside the store.

Pharmacy manager Sushma Chopra says she gave them paper towels and a sick bag and asked them to leave so Liam would not be sick inside again, because other customers were there.

However, Miss Bagley says she and her son were left feeling “humiliated”, and believes she should have been allowed to sit Liam down and clean him up inside the pharmacy before leaving.

The 28-year-old, who is three months pregnant, said: “My son was covered in sick and was shaking and crying, so I tried to take his coat off but Mrs Chopra told us to get out.

“I have never been so humiliated in my life. There was no sympathy at all. She should have let me take him into a side room and clean him up a bit.”

Miss Bagley, who lives in Leewood Place in Swanley, added: “I have been going to the chemist all my life, but I will never go there again now.”

Mrs Chopra says the only other rooms in the pharmacy are a medical consultation room and a toilet at the end of the dispensary, where the prescription medication is kept.

She said: “I could not allow the boy to be sick where medical consultations are carried out or medication is stored.

“I have been in the pharmacy business 26 years, we have been here in this shop 26 years, and there is no way we would treat anybody badly.

“We just didn’t want the boy to be sick in the shop again, especially as he could have had swine flu, which is so easy to catch.

“The two girls who work here were the ones who cleaned up the sick, not the boy’s mother.

“I cannot understand what her complaint is.”