Vigilance arrests doctor couple on anti cancer medicine fraud
Bhubaneswar: Two senior oncologists associated with AHRCC, Cuttack have been arrested on account of charges of prescribing cancer medicines of a particular brand, which is low in quality and expensive than other reputed drugs available in the market.
A doctor couple and a proprietor of a pharmaceutical company were arrested by vigilance sleuths on charges of fraud, police informed.
The arrested doctor couple was identified as Surendranath Senapati, head of radiation oncology department and Diptirani Samanta, assistant professor of medical oncology. Both of them work at Acharya Harihar Regional Cancer Centre, Cuttack.
The arrested businessman was identified as Sudhansu Das, proprietor of M/s JBSL Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals in Cuttack, an official release issued by the vigilance department said.
The department had registered a case against the three following allegations that the doctor couple prescribed JBSL brand anti-cancer drugs to patients covered under Odisha State Treatment Fund (OSTF) and Biju Krushak Kalyan Yojana (BKKY) schemes of Odisha government in which drugs were supplied to patients free of cost.
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