The equipment is believed to have been taken sometime between Friday evening and yesterday morning.
Both cases saw medical equipment such as endoscopy machines worth hundreds of thousands of Euros taken from the CUF hospital in Porto and Barreiro hospital on the south side of the Tagus.
Patients due to undergo the exam have had their consultations postponed.
The theft of medicl equipment is an on-going problem. I came across it while working at a Veterans Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. We had about six endoscopes stolen in December 1998.
Further research identified endoscopes, ultrasound machines and or their individual transducers as the most stolen items.
it appers that the hot thing is Automatic External Defibrilators, especially in England and Ireland.
There were some medical equipment stolen in Spain a few years ago. Authorities supposedly arrested suspects from Columbia.
There is some information supporting the involvement of Columbian Theft Rings being involved in these thefts.
By Patrick Kerrigan from USA on 18 Nov 2015, 04:20