Resident Doctors arrested for alleged Bribe: MARD, Hospital authorities come out in support
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Nagpur: A clash seems to have been created between the resident doctor body in the state as well as the government after two ophthalmologists at GMC Nagpur were taken in custody for taking an allegedly for proving medicines to patient
It is reported that last week Anti-Corruption Bureau conducted a raid at Government Medical College (GMC) Hospital, Nagpur and caught two ophthalmologists, including a woman while allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 3000 from an eye patient. The accused doctors have been sent jail.According to the sleuths, the doctors demanded the bribe of Rs 3,000 from one their patient who wife was being treated for eye complications.
Local resident doctors however, stated that the two accused asked for money to family to make available essential injection, Bevacizumab used in diabetic retinopathy, which was not available anywhere in the medical college hospital as it is not part of the rate contract. The injection comes in quantity which can be used for 10 patients at a time and comes at a cost not affordable by poor patients( that is Rs 20-25k), so the doctors, and ground reality stands that the doctors of the department procure them and use them on the patients who would otherwise go without the essential medicine. It is with this end that the charges of Rs 3000 were made from the patient
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