Ayurveda Doctor, nurse among 6 arrested for Remdesivir black marketing in Delhi
New Delhi: A 30-year-old Ayurvedic doctor and a nurse were among six people arrested here for alleged black-marketeering of antiviral drug Remdesivir, police said on Tuesday.
According to police, the nurse, Lalitesh (24), was deployed in the COVID ward of a private hospital in south Delhi and would procure Remdesivir injections of COVID patients who got discharged.
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However, in the records she showed that the drug was used during treatment, police said, adding that the injections were passed on to her associates – Vipul Verma (29), from Laxmi Nagar, Vishal Kashyap (22), a resident of Moti Nagar, and Shubham (23), who lives in Moti Nagar, police said.
The group would demand Rs 70,000 for each injection, police said.
According to police, information was received that a person would come near Haiderpur Bus Stand for delivering a Remdesivir injection. A raid was conducted and Verma was apprehended, a senior police officer said.
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