Today, Friday, the Ministry of Health announced the destruction of more than 100,000 psychotropic pills.
A statement from the ministry received by Al-Rasheed stated that, “Under the supervision and follow-up of the Minister of Health, Saleh Al-Hasnawi, Chairman of the Supreme National Authority for Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Affairs, and in the presence of the Chairman of the Destruction Committee, Judge Suhaib Daham Al-Maadidi, and the Director of the Department of Follow-up of the Work of the Supreme National Authority for Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Affairs, Iyad Hassan Al-Tamimi and all… Members of the competent committee, the Ministry of Health continues to destroy new quantities of narcotic drugs seized in accordance with the law and stored in the Forensic Medicine Department in the capital, Baghdad.
The head of the committee, Judge Suhaib Dahham Al-Maadidi, explained, according to the statement, that “more than 1 kilogram of narcotic substances, (100,000) one hundred thousand pills of Cedafed Plus, and (903) pills of various types of psychotropic substances were destroyed in the Forensic Medicine Department in Baghdad.” .
He added, “Narcotic materials had previously been seized according to legal records and were kept in that department, where they were burned and a technical examination was conducted after the burning process to ensure that the materials lost their properties after the destruction process.”
