Surya, who had also read out a list of 17 Muslims working there and questioned their appointment, had alleged that hospitals in Bengaluru blocked beds in fake names to make money, at a time when Covid cases were rising in Karnataka.
Bangalore South Member of Parliament Tejaswi Surya has exposed a bed scam in Bengaluru. Under the scam, the racketeers use the BU numbers generated for each of the Covid positive cases and block the beds for about 12 hours.
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After Remdesivir and oxygen cylinders, black marketeers have found a new low and are running a running a bed mafia in Bengaluru. In a scam exposed by Bangalore South Member of Parliament Tejaswi Surya, these agents are blocking hospital beds and later trading them at exorbitant prices.
The racketeers use the BU numbers generated for each of the Covid positive cases and block the beds for about 12 hours. When the patient against whose number the hospital bed is blocked, it auto cancels the reservation. This 12-hour window is being used by these racketeers to sell the beds in the black market.