Karuma Health Center drugs go missing
Some of the items that went missing include: 99 boxes of Coartem equivalent to 71,280 tablets; 4,650 malaria testing kits; and 4,000 amoxicillin capsules.
Kiryandongo: Police are investigating circumstances under which drugs went missing from the stores of Karuma Health Center in Kiryandongo district.
The drugs went missing from the store on March 6, 2024. Some of the items that went missing include: 99 boxes of Coartem equivalent to 71,280 tablets; 4,650 malaria testing kits; and 4,000 amoxicillin capsules.
Jonathan Akweteireho, the Kiryandongo Deputy Resident District Commissioner, said in a press statement on Wednesday, March 13, 2024, that it wasn’t a break-in and no padlocks seemed tampered with.
Akweteireho added that, ‘’According to the incharge, she keeps to her chest the two keys she was handed over to a few years ago.’’
According to the deputy RDC, the incharge says she had been to the store for hardly 24 hours, adding that all the staff supposed to have been on duty that day, including the askari, were available.
Akweteireho says security is investigating if indeed the drugs were stolen on the said date, if the incharge has only two keys instead of four or three that come along with padlocks, if true what is alleged is real, the history of security at the facility, possible inside jobs, among others.
The presidential representative appealed to the general public to be vigilant about what concerns them and to volunteer with information regarding these vices.
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