Delhi: Doctor, nurse among 6 arrested for black-marketeering of Remdesivir injections
A 30-year-old Ayurvedic physician and a nurse have been among six folks arrested right here for alleged black-marketeering of antiviral drug Remdesivir, police mentioned on Tuesday.
According to police, the nurse, Lalitesh (24), was deployed within the COVID ward of a non-public hospital in south Delhi and would procure Remdesivir injections of COVID sufferers who bought discharged.
However, within the data she confirmed that the drug was used throughout remedy, police mentioned, including that the injections have been handed on to her associates – Vipul Verma (29), from Laxmi Nagar, Vishal Kashyap (22), a resident of Moti Nagar, and Shubham (23), who lives in Moti Nagar, police mentioned.
The group would demand Rs 70,000 for every injection, police mentioned.
According to police, data was acquired that an individual would come close to Haiderpur Bus Stand for delivering a Remdesivir injection. A raid was carried out and Verma was apprehended, a senior police officer mentioned.
‘On his occasion, his associates Kashyap and Shubham have been additionally arrested. Six injections have been recovered from their possession. Later, Lalitesh, who was the supply of recovered injections, was additionally nabbed,” Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (northwest) Guriqbal Singh Sidhu mentioned.
In a separate incident, a BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine, and Surgery) physician and safety guard of a hospital have been arrested for allegedly promoting Remdesivir injections at inflated costs, police mentioned.
On Saturday, data was acquired that one Ashwani (32), who’s the safety supervisor at Sonia Hospital, Nangloi, was promoting the Remdesivir injection at inflated charges, police mentioned.
Delhi Police Crime Branch apprehended Ashwani with one Remdesivir injection. During interrogation, he disclosed that the injection was given to him by Parshant, a physician working on the hospital, they mentioned.
Later, a raid was carried out and Parshant was arrested. Four extra vials of Remdesivir injections have been seized from him, police mentioned.
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