The initial investigations into the leakages of government medicines and their sale in the open market have revealed that two dispensers posted in Chandka Medical College Hospital (teaching block) Larkana were involved in the crime.
The Medical Superintendent of CMCH Larkana Dr Zulfikar Ali Siyal told media-men on Sunday that he has formed a three member committee headed by Chief Casualty Medical Officer of CMC Hospital Dr Abdul Nabi Shaikh, the Deputy Medical Superintendent of CMC Hospital Dr Abdul Nabi Hulio and Dr Abdul Majeed Jessar to probe into the matter of pilferage of government medicines from the hospital and trickling down in the open market.
The committee would probe into the Thursdays' incident when in a raid at a rented house in Galib Nagar in Larkana city, in the limits of Haidry Police Station Larkana, medicines with the stamp of Sindh government and CMC Hospital Larkana worth Rs 0.5 million were recovered and two persons Nazeer Ahmed Kalhoro and Allah Rakhiyo Chandio were arrested.
The Medical Superintendent of CMC Hospital said that Mehar Ali Mangi and Ahmed Ali Shaikh the nursing orderly and dispenser in the CMC Hospital (teaching block) had connections with others gang members in the medicines market.
The arrested accused have disclosed the names of their associates during the interrogations, the Medical Superintendent added. More startling facts may come up during the investigation the administration of the hospital MS expected. Meanwhile the Haidri police on the complaint of Dr Farhan Jukhiyo the Resident Medical Officer has registered FIR against Nazeer Ahmed Kalhoro and Allah Rakhiyo Chandio for their alleged involvement in the dumping and selling the government medicines in the market. The gang had to remove the original trade marks and labels from the packs of the medicines and vials for further sale in the market, said the MS of CMC Hospital Dr Zulfikar Siyal.
It is mentioned here that on Thursday the MS of CMCH Larkana along with police had raided a rented house in Galib Nagar and seized medicines bearing the label and stamps of government and CMC Hospital Larkana. When contacted the police investigation officer Nazeer Mangi said a gang was behind this leakage of medicines and its members have been identified. He said soon the dispensers allegedly involved in the crime would be rounded up to further the probe.