JAIPUR: The state government has set up a decoy team to curb stealing, hoarding and black-marketing of Remdesivir injections by the medical and nursing staff of private hospitals, a practice which has witnessed rapid increase in the state over the past few weeks.
“A case is registered against these people if they are caught during the decoy operation. The medical staff, whose salaries are pretty low, steal injections from the hospitals and sell them outside. Now, due to the huge demand for Remdesivir injections, they get customers within the vicinity of the hospitals,” said an official, who is a member of the committee for supply of Remdesivir injections and other medicines in the state.
“Instead of injecting the patients, as advised by the doctors, some of them just put it in their pockets and leave the hospital premises. Such activities have been observed recently,” he said. “It is very difficult to catch these people because they don’t steal these injections in large numbers. They steal one or two injections and sell them at Rs 5,000 to 10,000.”
“A decoy team has been formed to curb hoarding and black-marketing of medicines in the state. They catch them by posing themselves as bogus customers,” he further added.
“A case is registered against these people if they are caught during the decoy operation. The medical staff, whose salaries are pretty low, steal injections from the hospitals and sell them outside. Now, due to the huge demand for Remdesivir injections, they get customers within the vicinity of the hospitals,” said an official, who is a member of the committee for supply of Remdesivir injections and other medicines in the state.
“Instead of injecting the patients, as advised by the doctors, some of them just put it in their pockets and leave the hospital premises. Such activities have been observed recently,” he said. “It is very difficult to catch these people because they don’t steal these injections in large numbers. They steal one or two injections and sell them at Rs 5,000 to 10,000.”
“A decoy team has been formed to curb hoarding and black-marketing of medicines in the state. They catch them by posing themselves as bogus customers,” he further added.
