80 vials of fentanyl go missing from Israelite Hospital

Eighty vials of fentanyl have

disappeared from the Israelite Hospital in Rome, in the Magliana

neighborhood, Rome daily Il Messaggero reported Friday saying

the vials of the drug had been kept in the hospital safe.

Among the police's theories is that it was a commissioned theft

aimed at reselling the vials on the black market.

Fentanyl is a powerful opioid used for pain relief and is also

one of the synthetic drugs considered the most dangerous, as it

can have serious or even lethal effects even at low doses.

The alarm was raised, the Roman newspaper reports, by hospital

employees, and when the Carabinieri arrived, they found that the

safe showed no signs of forced entry.

The key, the hospital said, was being used by multiple

employees.

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