PDEA chemists (on white) ready the unlawful medication to be destroyed inside a thermal facility (Photographs by Leah Agonoy/INQUIRER)
PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Company Regional Workplace-9 led the destruction of some P1.5-M value of unlawful medication on the Libertad Energy and Power Company (LPEC) in Aurora city, Zamboanga del Sur on Thursday afternoon.
PDEA-9 regional director Maharani Gadaoni-Tosoc mentioned the destroyed medication amounted to some 222.4526 grams of meth shabu which had been disposed of by burning, in compliancr with the process set by Harmful Medicine Board Regulation No. 1 collection of 2002.
PDEA chemists (on white) ready the unlawful medication to be destroyed inside a thermal facility (Photographs by Leah Agonoy/INQUIRER)
PDEA partnered with LPEC since they had been geared up with a facility for “thermal destruction” of the unlawful medication by heating these as much as 800 levels Celsius, she defined.
Regional Trial Courtroom Department 30 Presiding Decide Analyn Ramas-Costanilla mentioned all of the destroyed harmful medication had been submitted to her courtroom from 2010 to 2024 as proof in 260 circumstances, of which solely three remained energetic.
LPEC workers assisted in pouring the damaging medication contained in the thermal facility (Photographs by Leah Agonoy/INQUIRER)
“This will likely be an instance for them (different courts in Zamboanga del Sur) that it’s about time to destroy these medication evidences that had been submitted to the courtroom,” Costanilla mentioned.
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That is additionally for the neighborhood to know that the damaging medication submitted to courtroom had been finally destroyed and weren’t peddled again to the streets, she identified.
PDEA-9 had been conducting the destruction of confiscated unlawful medication since 2014, the final one on March 8, 2022 destroying P34.4-M value of unlawful medication in Zamboanga Metropolis, Tosoc recalled.
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