Suspicious Medicines Marketed in Pharmacies

Security services are investigating on “suspicious” medicines being marketed “illegally” by pharmacies, putting the life of chronic patients at stake.

The investigation has been opened following the accurate information collected by detectives over the existence of smuggled medicines which do not bear any information labels. 

National Gendarmerie detectives have already discovered a load of “unknown origin” medicines in a store of a pharmacy in El Oued province, south east Algeria. 

1600 medicines of different brands were packed in two parcels. They were destined for patients suffering chronic diseases.

After enduring the pharmacy owner to questioning, he admitted that he bought the load of medicines from unknown people who brought them from Tunisia. 

To recall, people with chronic diseases in Algeria are still suffering for the lack of vital medicines, after the Ministry of Health imposed restrictions on imports, without providing an alternative supply option. 

The general prosecutor of El Oued Court has referred the defendant pharmacist to custody, ordered to handover the seized medicines to Customs, and ordered to send samples of the medicines for analysis to the National Gendarmerie’s Institute for Criminal Evidence and Criminology.