2024-02-11 02:17:00
Three public servants from the Ministry of Health (MSP) were arrested after they were found with medicine stolen from the pharmacy of the Durán Doctor Enrique Ortega Moreira hospital.
This was detailed by the National Police after the operation carried out this Saturday, February 10, along with the arrest of those involved in that hospital.
MSP reports theft in a health facility pharmacy in Guayas
Uniformed officers from the Durán district went on alert from ECU911 to the hospital where doctors told them that three collaborators from the pharmacy area were found stealing medicine.
There, 34 boxes of the medicine human albumin 20% 200 g/l used as blood substitutes in catastrophic patients and 120 bottles of 10 mg/ml propofol, which is an injectable sedative, were recorded.
The medications that were intended to be stolen were placed under the seats. Photo: Courtesy.
According to doctors, these drugs are valued on the market at about $12,000, since each vial of propofol costs $70 and human albumin, approximately $100 or $120.
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Uniformed members of the National Police indicated that the medications were found under the seats of a double cabin truck, and in the verification of the health personnel involved they were unable to justify the reason for taking out that medicine, so the arrest was made.
Agents identified them as Ronny TS, who is listed as a pharmaceutical chemist; Bryan PC, who was a pharmacy assistant; and Mario BM, an operating room graduate.
The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) condemned the theft of these medications and indicated that it made a complaint to the competent authorities to clarify this fact and that those responsible be punished. (YO)
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