The Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) has picked up 10 persons for questioning in the wake of the monumental loss after fire destroyed the Central Medical Stores, Joy News has learnt.

Details of those picked up are not known.

Joy News has confirmed the interdiction of three  top officials working in the Health Ministry.

These top officials include Director Procurement and Supply, Ministry of Health, Samuel Boateng, Director Supply Stores and Drug Management, Ghana Health Service, Dr Kwesi Addai Donkor and Head of Stores at the Central Medical Stores, Abdul Karim Iddrisu.

Health ministry are currently in a crunch meeting as it shortlists several other top officials also to be interdicted later today.

The facility was consumed by fire last week, destroying medical supplies and equipment worth over GHȼ230 million.

Joy News' Seth Kwame Boateng reports that damning findings in the interim fire report disclosed, the facility failed to meet critical fire safety requirements and did not have a fire certificate.

The report also found inconsistencies in the accounts given by the facility managers on the cause of the fire and also pointed to negligence.