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Staffer charged with stealing drugs from Diamond bond
Released on bail Doquan Griffith
Doquan Griffith, 19, of Lot 41 Costello Housing Scheme, Georgetown was yesterday released on bail after he appeared before City Magistrate Leron Daly in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, charged with stealing pharmaceuticals.
Griffith denied the allegation which stated that on May 17, last, at the Material Manufacturing Unit (MMU), East Bank Demerara, he stole four boxes of OnCall Plus blood glucose test trips valued $20,000 from the Ministry of Public Health.
He was released on $50,000 bail and ordered to return to court on June 2.
The defendant was represented by Attorney-at-Law Leslie Benjamin who asked that her client be released on reasonable bail. The attorney told the court that her client has been employed at the Ministry of Public Health for the past two years.
Police Prosecutor Sanj Singh objected to bail citing that investigations are still outgoing in the matter. The prosecutor further pointed out that should bail be granted there is a possibility that the defendant might not return to court.
According to the prosecutor, the defendant admitted to stealing the items in a caution statement.
Based on reports, police on Wednesday apprehended a minibus with staffers of the Ministry of Public Health’s Bond at Diamond, East Bank Demerara. A search was conducted in the bus and a quantity of pharmaceuticals was found.
This publication was informed that person or persons employed at the Bond were seen earlier in the day stashing a quantity of pharmaceuticals in a washroom in the compound.
After the police were alerted, they conducted a stakeout at the location and observed when a minibus in which the pharmaceuticals were eventually packed, left the compound of the Bond.
The minibus was later intercepted and a quantity of pharmaceuticals, all property of the Public Health Ministry, was found.
Reports are that over time quantities of pharmaceuticals were found to be missing from the Bond thus raising suspicions at the level of the Ministry.
The Ministry has been taking seriously the pilfering of its pharmaceuticals, a state of affairs that has been lending to a constant unprecedented shortage of pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies at several health facilities across the country.
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