Ghaziabad doctor, 2 aides arrested for black marketing Remdesivir injections, Rs 36 lakh, car, motorbikes seized

Ghaziabad: A joint staff of particular weapons and ways (SWAT) and Kotwali police have arrested three males, together with a health care provider working in Lucknow’s King George’s Medical University, for allegedly hoarding Remdesivir injections right here, police stated.

Mohammad Altamash (42), a resident of Delhi’s Nizamuddin, had earlier labored at AIIMS Delhi and usually delivered lectures to medical college students in varied medical schools.

His two accomplices — Kumail of Kaila Bhatta in Ghaziabad and Jazim Ali of Bara Hindu Rao in Delhi — have been nabbed together with the physician because the trio had been looking out for members of the family who had been in dire want of the life-saving injection for COVID-19 sufferers and charged between Rs 30,000 to 40,000 per injection.

Altamash was black-marketing Remdesivir injections after procuring vials from medical shops on medical doctors’ prescriptions and promoting these medication to needy sufferers. An enormous nexus was concerned in it and all people was getting his personal share in revenue, City Superintendent of Police (1st) Nipun Agarwal instructed media.

He added that police have recovered 70 vials of Remdesivir injections together with money over Rs 36 lakh earned by hoarding the drug. Police have seized a automobile and two motorbikes used within the crime, Agarwal stated, including that police groups are interrogating the accused for additional details about extra such gangs.

During the interrogation, Altamash stated that he holds a MBBS diploma from KGMU Lucknow and has pursued DNB/DM in Neurology from Vivekananda school in Lucknow. He was a visiting doctor at New Delhi’s AIIMS Hospital. At current, he was working as a CEO of Hyatt Health Insurance Corporate Sector. He instructed police that being from the medical area, he had many contacts by which he was promoting Remedesivir in Delhi and Western Uttar Pradesh areas. He stated that he was promoting Remdesivir injections for 20,000-40,000 and Actamera injection for Rs 1-2 lakhs.

The police has recovered the money earned by black marketing of Remdesivir injection from him. The police staff has been awarded a prize of Rs 25000 for busting the racket.