Gang of government hospital medicines caught by crime branch with medicines worth 70 lakhs recovered

The crime branch of Delhi police has today busted a gang which was massively clandestinely selling the medicines meant to be dispensed in government hospitals to the poor patients. The crime branch has seized medicines of rupeees seventy lakhs from their possession. These medicines used to be disbursed free if costs to the patients of Delhi government hospitals. The medicines emerged were costly medicines used in critical illness, antibiotics, critical care injections, including insulins, several life saving drugs meant for the patients of serious ailments. Those involved in this business were the employees of Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital’s pharmacist Binesh Kumar, who in league with one other contract employee Prakash Mehta has manipulated the record and sold these medicines to outside pharmacist market. In addition to Binesh Kumar and Prakash Mehta, the police have also arrested Neeraj Kumar, Sushil Kumar, and Laxman Mukhiya in this case.
If medicines meant for the treatment of poor and needy patients are stolen and sold—how will trust in the system be maintained? This is not just corruption, but playing with the lives of patients.