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Stolen Medicines Seized from Private Pharmacy – Beira, Mozambique
7:14 CAT | 18 Jan 2016
In file Club of Mozambique.
The Health Inspectorate in the central Mozambican province of Sofala has seized over 46 different types of medicines from the “Feroza” private pharmacy in Beira.
The medicines belonged to the National Health Services, and had thus been stolen. The sale of medicines acquired for public health units in private pharmacies is illicit.
Cited in Friday’s issue of the Beira daily paper “Diário de Moçambique”, the provincial chief health inspector, Ricardo Manuel, said the raid on “Feroza” was part of inspection activities being undertaken in the city’s markets and in public and private pharmacies.
The seizures, he said, are intended to discourage the theft of National Health Service medicines and their sale outside of public health units.
It was easy to tell which drugs had been stolen from the Health Service, since they all bore National Health Service stamps. Private pharmacies are entitled to import their own drugs – but they must pay for them themselves, and they do not bear the Health Service stamp.
In the southern province of Inhambane the police last Friday arrested two health workers in connection with the theft of medicines from Zavala District Hospital. The police surprised them at night, as they were attempted to steal four boxes of medicines from the hospital stores.
Caught red-handed, the two confessed to the crime.
Source: AIM
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