2 break into doctor's office to steal prescription book

Two Emiratis allegedly broke into a doctor’s office in a private hospital and stole a medical prescription book and used two of its prints for getting controlled drugs.

In February 2014, the hospital reported to the police about unidentified people who got into the hospital at night and broke drawers in a doctor’s office.

The doctor QN, 62, Iraqi, told investigators that he had been working in the hospital for 10 years and that he is authorised to prescribe controlled medicines.

“I entered my office at around 7pm and noticed that some drawers were broken. Checking them, I found out that a stamp that carried my name and a prescription book of the Ministry of Health were missing,” said the doctor

There were no security cameras in the hospital and the doctor’s office was kept unlocked. Locks of some drawers in the doctor’s office were broken, Lieutenant Hamad Saif said.

The Ministry of Health was informed to instruct pharmacies to refrain from dispensing controlled medicines on prescriptions that carry the book’s serial numbers and the doctor’s stamp.

The ministry circulated the ban to all private pharmacies and hospitals. NM, 30, Egyptian pharmacists suspected a prescription presened by a man in his twenties for a controlled medicine.

“The prescription was very badly written and included many spelling mistakes. I called the hospital where the doctor worked to double check with them. The pharmacist in the hospital told me about the theft of the doctor’s book. While I was talking to the hospital, the client took the prescription and left the pharmacy,” NM told police.

Another pharmacist in a private hospital suspected a prescription of controlled medicine presented by two young clients as it was also in bad English and full of mistakes.

The pharmacist, JK 48, Indian, who knew about the theft of the prescription book, informed his senior who notified the  hospital and the police.

Police arrived and arrested SH, 18, student and HA, 23, unemployed.

The Prosecution noted that SH denied stealing the book from the doctor’s office and claimed that he had bought two forged prescriptions from AF (fugitive).

However, the Prosecution accused both SH and HA and the fugitive of stealing prints of the Ministry of Health and the doctor’s stamp after entering the doctor’s office at night and breaking the drawers.

They were also accused of forging two medical prescriptions by including the controlled medicine in them, forging the doctor’s signature and using his stamp.

SH alone is accused of using the forged prescription and presenting an ID card of another person to the two pharmacists in attempts to get the medicine dispensed to him.

The two failed to appear before the court which will give its sentence on June 29.
 

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