Nursing staff arrested by Pimpri-Chinchwad police for alleged black marketing of Mucormycosis injections
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Pune: A nursing staff attached to Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences, Karnataka, and a Medical Representative (MR) were recently arrest by Pimpri-Chinchwad police for alleged involvement in black marketing of Amphotericin injection which is used for treating Covid-induced Mucormycosis.
Police have secured 14 Liposomal Amphotericin B injections amounting to Rs 84,000 and 8 Amphotericin B Liposome worth Rs 60,000 from the nursing staff after a decoy customer sent by the cops confirmed her as the supplier.
Modus operandi, the nursing staff used to illegally supply the injections to the medical representative, who in turn, sold them in Maharashtra.
As per recent media reports, the alleged smuggling of the drug came to light after the Deputy Commissioner of Police Sudhir Hiremath, received a tip-off, and on the 7th of June the police arrested five persons including a medical store owner in Wakad, a salesman at a medical store in Pashan, a hospital security staff in Kasba Peth, a nurse at a municipal Covid care centre, and a medical store owner in Pune after three such illegal injections were seized from them.
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