OVER the years many teens have tampered with household spirit supplies, replacing vodka with water to cover their tracks.
However, it appears one Israeli pharmacist has taken the same principle to medicines in the dispensary, emptying capsules and refilling them with baking soda before selling them on to patients.
Suspicions arose after staff from a major health fund began looking into the pharmacist's "work habits" and noticed the individual was not following Health Ministry procedures, The Jerusalem Post reported.
A subsequent investigation by health officials has been ongoing for a number of weeks to identify how may patients were provided with the tainted medicines and whether the capsules caused any deterioration of patients' health.
The police are expected to be contacted in the coming days to review the case.
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