Hospital worker in Malaga arrested for allegedly stealing synthetic opioids

According to the complainant, these ampoules are used for patients with acute pain. They are kept under lock and key in the hospital safe and when they are dispensed, the health personnel have to reference them in the corresponding record book.

The stolen substance is a narcotic analgesic that acts as a depressant of the central nervous system. It is considered a narcotic in the annexed lists of narcotic drugs regulated in the Single Convention of 1961.

Having previously worked in the department, the alleged perpetrator would have had access to the safe where the psychotropic drugs were stored. She allegedly took advantage of that information to steal 43 ampoules when she was no longer working at that particular hospital, as reported by laopiniondemalaga.com.

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