DADU, May 31: Costly equipment has been stolen from the storeroom of the Coronary Care Unit of the Civil Hospital Dadu.

The Dadu Town police sealed the storeroom and arrested its in charge on suspicion the other day.

The RMO, Civil Hospital Dadu, Dr Dost M. Bughio wrote a letter to the DPO, Dadu, that some unidentified thieves had broken the windows of the storeroom of the Coronary Care Unit of the hospital and had stolen three ECG machines, a TO monitor, two patient monitors, an ultrasound machine, and other equipment worth Rs2 million.

On receiving the letter, the DPO, Dadu, M. Tahir Naveed constituted a team under the supervision of the DSP headquarters, Haji Sikandar Ali Mangi, to find out as to who the culprits were.

The DSP visited the Coronary Care Unit’s storeroom and sealed it.

The police also arrested its in charge, Syed Noor Nabi Shah, registered a case against him and are investigating.

The SHO, Dadu town, Mukhtiar Ahmed Saryo claimed that some officials of the Civil Hospital were involved in the theft as there were no traces of footprints of any thieves in and around the store.

The DPO told this scribe that the police were collecting the records of purchasing of the equipment to ascertain whether it had been purchased.