A health worker wearing PPE, attends to Covid-19 patients (Representational image)
AHMEDABAD: Ramol Police arrested four persons on Monday for allegedly trying to sell remdesivir injections at exorbitant rates of Rs 40,000 each. One of the accused persons had sourced the injections from a nursing staff, and sold it to the other accused at Rs 26,000 each, police said. The others in turn, charged about Rs 40,000 each from desperate relatives of Covid-19 patients.
Police said nursing staff have access to leftover injections in cases where patients die during treatment, or when they no longer require remdesivir.
According to protocol, the injections rendered extra are to be handed back to hospital management, but some nurses and other staff supply the leftover injections to the black market, police said. The involvement of other medical workers in the racket is being probed.