Stolen cancer drugs recovered in Aranguez

The stolen cancer drugs recovered by police. - Photo courtesy TTPS
The stolen cancer drugs recovered by police. - Photo courtesy TTPS

MOST of the $2.5 million in cancer drugs stolen from the St James Medical Facility last month have been recovered from a house in Aranguez by Western Division police.

A police media release on Saturday said officers of the Western Division, led by Insp Grant and including PCs Gittens and Seecharan, among others, found the drugs at an unoccupied house on Friday. Police said $2.2 million worth of the drugs were recovered.

On July 5 the drugs – succinyl choline, bevacizumab, bleomycin, cetuximab, traztuzumab, tocilizumab, docetaxel, cyclophosphamide, insulin, oxytocin, rituximab, fulvestrant and epirubacin – were reportedly stolen from a storage area that was broken into. The drugs, worth $2.5 million, were reported stolen just days after the stock arrived.

Among the stolen items were 25 vials of tocilizumab, which was approved for covid19 treatment days after it was reported stolen. Tocilizumab is an immuno-suppressive drug, which is approved for rheumatoid arthritis and is being used off-label to treat covid19 before it was given the all-clear on July 10 by the Health Ministry.

Police did not say which drugs were recovered and which remained missing. No one was arrested.

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