Gang arrested for ‘selling’ COVID ICU beds in Peru
Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
PERU: Nine people, including public hospital staff, have been arrested in Peru accused of "selling" intensive care beds to desperate coronavirus patients for thousands of dollars apiece, police and prosecutors said Thursday.
The nine, which also included the directors of a patient care NGO, were arrested Wednesday and appeared in court the following day.
Prosecutor Reynaldo Abia told reporters an investigation was opened after a complaint from a woman who had a family member with Covid-19 and paid for a bed for them.
The gang allegedly asked her for 82,000 soles (some $20,500) to bump her loved one up on the waiting list for an intensive care bed at the Guillermo Almenara hospital in Lima.