Authorities arrested three individuals on Tuesday night after recovering stolen medicines worth Rs1.5 million from a private hospital located in a housing society in Nawab Town.
Acting on a tip-off, a team from the Punjab Drug Control Wing, led by Chief Drug Controller Azhar Jamal, raided the facility and confiscated medicines reportedly stolen from several government hospitals.
Punjab Health Minister Khawaja Imran Nazir accompanied the raiding party. The recovered drugs had been stolen from Wapda Hospital, Polyclinic Hospital Islamabad, Social Security Hospital, and other Punjab government facilities. The haul included life-saving medicines such as insulin, inhalers, antibiotics, painkillers, and blood pressure treatments.
Minister Nazir emphasized a zero-tolerance policy toward drug theft, stating that such medicines are meant for the underprivileged. He added that, on the directives of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, operations against medicine theft in public hospitals would continue.
The arrested suspects have been identified as Adil, Anees, and Zahid.
