Stolen hospital medicines seized in Mymensingh, one arrested

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seize a huge quantity of medicines allegedly stolen from Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital (MMCH), raiding a house in Bandher Bari area in the town yesterday. Photo: STAR

A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-9) team recovered a huge quantity of stolen medicines from a residence in Bandher Bari area, adjacent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) yesterday noon.
Rab and police sources said, on secret information, a Rab team raided the house of Momtaz Uddin and recovered medicines including injection syringe, saline sets, surgical items, antibiotic injections and capsules worth Tk. one lakh. The medicines were stolen from the hospital, they said.
The Rab team also arrested Hanif Uddin, 40, the younger brother of Momtaz. He was taken to Rab office for interrogation and later handed over to Kotwali police.
During the raid, Director of MMCH Col Shahjahan, president and secretary of Bangladesh Medical Association local unit Dr. AFM Rafiqul Alam and Dr. Motiur Rahman Bhuiyan were present.
Contacted, the MMCH director told this correspondent that they have formed a five-member probe body headed by MMCH Assistant Director Dr. Shambhunath to investigate into alleged theft of medicines from the hospital.
Quoting sources he said Hanif Uddin is a flying medicine businessman in Charpara area in the district town.
A UNB report adds: Law enforcing agencies in separate drives arrested four people along with huge drugs in Dinajpur, Bhola and Khulna districts on Friday and Saturday.
In Dinajpur, BDR men arrested a drug peddler along with huge Indian pathedine injections and sleeping pills from Enayetpur frontier in Birol upazila Saturday morning.
The arrested person was identified as Abdur Rahim, 35, son of Arshad Ali of Chauliapotti area of Dinajpur town.
Sources said a patrol team of BDR caught Abdur Rahim and recovered 4,000 ampoules of pathedine injection and 3,500 pieces of sleeping pill from his possession.
In Bhola, Detective Branch (DB) of police in separate drives arrested two youths along with some bottles of foreign liquor and phensidyl syrup from Kheyaghat Road and Bangla School crossing in the district town on Saturday early morning.
DB police said they arrested Aktaruzzaman Shishir along with two bottles of foreign liquor from Kheyaghat Road in the morning.
In another drive, they arrested Sohel Abdullah Babu along with six bottles of phensidyl syrup from Bangla School crossing at noon.
In Khulna, police arrested drug peddler Mintu Hossain, 22, along with four bottles of phensidyl from Khan A Sabur Road in the city on Friday evening.