Stolen medicines of DjMCH recovered, six arrested
Police have arrested four staff of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital [DjMCH] and two others on charge of stealing and selling the medicines of the hospital.
They also recovered two sacks full of 16 types of medicines worth Tk 4 lakh yesterday.
The arrestees are DjMCH store officer Ajmalur Haque, 50, storekeeper Rezaul Alam, 45, master roll employees Md Sabuj, 18, and Shiplu Hossain, 18, Md Jahurul Islam, 40, owner of Ma Pharmacy, Sohel Rana, 21, a staff of Alam Clinic at Dinajpur Satellite town.
"We arrested the hospital officials and employees on charge of stealing the medicines while others were arrested for selling it," said Bazlur Rashid, a sub inspector of Dinajpur Detective Branch (DB).
On Sunday afternoon, a few DjMCH staff caught Md Sabuj and Shiplu Hossain red handed with huge medicines of the hospital when the two were going out from the hospital store.
Sumon Kumar Kundu, a ward master of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital, filed a medicine theft case with Dinajpur Police Station on Sunday night.
Md Ruhul Amin, superintendent of police of Dinajpur, handed over the case to DB.
During overnight interrogation, the two employees confessed to police that they collected medicines from the hospital store daily with the help of two hospital officials who are responsible to look after the medicine store and sold those to different pharmacies in front of the hospital.
Based on their information, police raided Ma Pharmacy in front of Dinajpur Medical College and Alam Clinic at Dinajpur Satellite Town yesterday and seized two sacks full of 16 types of medicines which are not allowed to sell outside the hospital.
Later, police arrested the store officer and the storekeeper from hospital complex.
Lawmaker and Jatiya Sangsad Whip Iqbalur Rahim, also president of the governing body of Dinajpur Medical College and Hospital, visited the hospital and directed the police to look into the medicine theft case seriously.
Dr Siddiqur Rahman Director of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital said, "Quite a few incidents of medicine missing occurred in last few months, but the culprits remained undetected. This time the perpetrators have been caught. We sealed off the store and going to form an inquiry committee to investigate the incident."
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