Scam in LLR hospital: Remdesivir injections issued in name of dead patients

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Kanpur: A major scam has surfaced in Lala Lajpat Rai hospital where it was found that Remdesivir injections were issued in the name of dead patients during the second Corona wave.
The LLR hospital sources said that the injections had been removed from the store allegedly by its nursing staff.
Principal, GSVM medical college, Dr RB Kamal while talking to reporters said a three-member committee has been constituted to investigate the whole matter.
“The committee will probe and submit its report soon. We have directed the authorities concerned to collect the data of Remdesivir injection. The guilty will not be spared”, he said.
Remdesivir injections, the sources said, were issued in the name of four dead persons, including a female Covid patient, who had died on May 22.
“As per the prescription note issued by the doctor, the female patient had died on May 22, but Remdesivir injections were issued in her name on May 26,” the sources added.
To recall, the crime branch of the police on April 30 had busted a racket and arrested four persons--two nursing staff of LLR hospital and a private hospital worker--who used to sell Remdesivir in the black market.
Police had identified the arrested persons as Vikram and Chetansh Chauhan, both nursing staff members of LLR, Anshul Sharma, a private hospital worker and one Ayush Kamal.A police officer from the Kakadeo police station, as a decoy customer, traced Ayush Kamal, a blackmarketteer, hailing from Vijay Nagar area of the city. In the sting operation, the police officer managed to strike a deal with Kamal for getting a vial for Rs 30,000-Rs 35,000. Subsequently, the police arrested Anshul Sharma, an employee of a private hospital.
During interrogation, Kamal had revealed the names of two nursing staff members of LLR hospital involved in the racket. He told the police that LLR nursing staff member Vikram used to steal Remdevisir injections from the hospital and sell them to his staff member Chetansh for Rs 10,000 each. From Chetansh, Anshul used to buy each vial for Rs 20,000 and further sell it to him for Rs 30,000-Rs 35,000 per vial.
Police later arrested Vikram, Chetansh and Ayush, who confessed to their crime.
Also, not very long ago, the commissionerate police had seized 265 Remdesivir injections from the possession of three people, including a Haryana resident in the South City area.