June 30, 2021
Federal and provincial investigation agencies have launched joint and separate investigations into the theft of medicines from public hospitals in Sindh a day after the National Task Force against Spurious Drugs of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) recovered a huge quantity of medicines during raids on shops and warehouses in the Katchi Gali medicine market and Hussainabad areas of Karachi, officials said on Tuesday.
The administrations of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi have also initiated internal inquiries after DRAP officials claimed that medicines stolen from these health facilities were seized during raids, which were clearly stamped ‘Sindh government property’ and ‘NICVD’, but argued that the theft of medicines from their health facilities was not possible.
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