Two pharmacies have been shut down in Limpopo for contravening the Medicine Control Act‚ operating without a licence‚ fraud and theft.
The pharmacies were discovered during a province-wide operation by the Hawks’s Commercial Crime Unit on Thursday‚ according to a police statement issued on Friday.
A 34-year-old male nurse in Sekororo village‚ just outside Tzaneen‚ was arrested. During the search officers found medicine allegedly stolen from the Department of Health. Medicines requiring a license to be sold and a prescription to purchase were also found. The pharmacy was closed immediately.
Another pharmacy in Mamaila village near Sekgosese‚ about 70km from Tzaneen‚ was also closed.
It was allegedly using a license of registered pharmacy to operate. Large quantity of medicines‚ medical aid claim registers and other financial registers were seized.
The owner has not yet been arrested.
Police shut down fake two pharmacies‚ arrest nurse
Two pharmacies have been shut down in Limpopo for contravening the Medicine Control Act‚ operating without a licence‚ fraud and theft.
The pharmacies were discovered during a province-wide operation by the Hawks’s Commercial Crime Unit on Thursday‚ according to a police statement issued on Friday.
A 34-year-old male nurse in Sekororo village‚ just outside Tzaneen‚ was arrested. During the search officers found medicine allegedly stolen from the Department of Health. Medicines requiring a license to be sold and a prescription to purchase were also found. The pharmacy was closed immediately.
Another pharmacy in Mamaila village near Sekgosese‚ about 70km from Tzaneen‚ was also closed.
It was allegedly using a license of registered pharmacy to operate. Large quantity of medicines‚ medical aid claim registers and other financial registers were seized.
The owner has not yet been arrested.