The drugs stolen from the dis­pen­sary of the St James Med­ical Com­plex are now back in the pos­ses­sion of the North West Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day the NWRHA said it was pleased to re­veal that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 99 per cent of drugs that went miss­ing from the dis­pen­sary on Ju­ly 5 were re­cov­ered by mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

It said the han­dover of the re­cov­ered items to the NWRHA was con­duct­ed on Sat­ur­day at the St James Med­ical Com­plex.

The NWRHA said the ex­er­cise was led by Of­fi­cers from the West­ern Di­vi­sion Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment. A thor­ough in­ven­to­ry was com­plet­ed and batch num­bers of the items were ver­i­fied by of­fi­cials from both par­ties.

Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh said the stolen drugs were worth $2.5 mil­lion.

The NWRHA al­so ex­tend­ed “its deep­est grat­i­tude to the TTPS for its due dili­gence which re­sult­ed in the re­cov­ery of the items.”

It added,” It is a vic­to­ry for the NWRHA which will be ben­e­fi­cial to the hos­pi­tal’s pa­tients.”

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.