This morning, large quantities of stored medicines were burned in Aden after their expiration date. They were seized in the stores of one of the merchants in the Mansoura area, and Al-Manzoura in front of the Prosecution of Industry and Trade, Aden Governorate, No. 5/2024 AD, loaded in 15 cars, debited to nine million, one hundred and two forty, five hundred and six. Ten packages and glass and plastic containers (9,142,516), and cartons numbering seven thousand five hundred and forty-nine (7,549), two densities of different types of dismantled cartons from the courtyards of the South Aden Appeal Prosecution Office and the courtyards of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The process of destroying the seized expired medicines took place in a dump in the Bir al-Naama area in the Buraiqa District, where they were run over and broken by a fire truck, then burned and turned into ashes after they were inventoried by the Prosecution of Industry and Commerce in Aden Governorate, the Office of the Ministry of Industry in Aden, and the Protection Society. The consumer and the pharmaceutical authority that took samples for examination to submit a report on them.

The destruction process was attended by Judge Sumaya Al-Qubati, Deputy Prosecutor of Industry and Trade, Judge Anis Jamaan, Head of the Public Prosecution’s Information Department, Mr. Fadel Sweileh, Director General of Consumer Protection at the Ministry of Industry, Dr. Abdul Hakim Bawazir from the Supreme Authority for Medicines, Mr. Omar Muhammad Abbad, Director of Control and Consumer Protection, and Maher Saeed, the destruction supervisor, Mr. Abdul Salam Mansour, director of the operating room, and the owner of the property where the damaged medicines were seized, Brother Fares Abdullah Ali.