About $2300 worth of goods have been stolen from the Taranaki health board in the last five years. Ripping down and making off with a hand sanitiser station is one of the odder thefts from the Taranaki District Health Board. In the last completed financial year, the most stolen items were money and product vouchers, followed by hospital equipment. READ MORE:* Waikato hospitals' stolen items include prayer mat, ED laptop, and bicycle wheelsThat included a ward trolley, headphones, kitchen supplies and a hand sanitiser station pulled off the wall. “Thankfully thefts within Taranaki DHB facilities are not very common,” Campbell said in a statement on Thursday.

Source: Stuff January 14, 2021 16:30 UTC