Police arrest 3 staff for stealing boxes of medicine from Bolga Regional Hospital
The police in the Upper East Region have arrested three persons for stealing some boxes of medicine from the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital.
The three – Raymond Asoke, Noeyelle Bridget and Raheem Fasilat – were arrested through an intelligence operation.
Suspect Raymond Asoke, a driver at the Regional Hospital in Bolgatanga, was arrested on Friday, August 4, when he was monitored loading boxes of medicines from a certain unmarked house into a saloon car with registration No. GE 1532 -21.
A search in the car led to the retrieval of 12 boxes of various medicines.
The search was extended into the house where 22 additional boxes containing various kinds of medicines were discovered and retrieved.
Further investigation led to the arrest of suspect Noeyelle Bridget, the Assistant Dispensary Officer at the hospital’s pharmacy and suspect Raheem Fasilat, the store keeper at the hospital. Raheem has admitted to giving the boxes of medicines to the driver.
All three suspects are currently in custody and will be put before court to face justice.
According to the police, investigations are ongoing “to identify and arrest any other accomplices as well establish what the suspects do with the medicines stolen from the hospital”.
Source: 3news
Richard Koomson| mediacentralonline.info |Ghana
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