Rangpur Medical College Hospital
Organised gang steals drugs, sells in market
12 arrested in last three months
Police seize huge amount of medicine meant for Rangpur Medical College Hospital from the house of Abdur Rahim at Dhap in Rangpur town on Friday. Photo: STAR
An orgainsed gang in collaboration with some employees steals costly medicines from Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) and sells them to different private clinics, medicine shops and rural medical practitioners. Kotwali police sources said 12 people were caught red-handed in the last three months while stealing medicines from RMCH. Acting on a tip-off, law enforcers from Sadar Police Station raided the house of one Abdur Rahim in Dhap area of the town on Friday last and recovered a huge quantity of medicines meant for Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) from there. Police arrested Abdur Rahim on charge of keeping government medicines in his possession. After preliminary interrogation, they produced Rahim in a court that sent him to jail. On the night of March 31, police arrested a RMCH employee named Nuruzzaman on the college campus while he was taking away some medicines. Nuruzzaman was later released on requests from some leaders of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) Rangpur unit and RMCH Director Anisul Karim, police sources said. One Sabiha Begum of Dhap area was arrested in January while he was stealing 50 bags of intravenous saline from the hospital. A case was lodged with kotwali Police Station in this connection. Police said Rahim told them that a number of nurses, peons and ward boys of RMCH supply medicines to them. They also sell the stolen medicines to different private clinics, hospitals and rural medical practitioners. Some medicine traders from Midford, Dhaka, also purchase costly medicines from them, police quoting Rahim said. Rahim said they are so influential that RMCH authorities dare not take action against them. When contacted, RMCH Director Anisul Karim said a three-member committee is investigating the theft of medicines from RMCH. The committee will submit its report by April 11 and necessary actions will be taken on the basis of the report, he added.
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