Nagpur: Nagpur police arrested a doctor and three hospital ward boys for allegedly stealing Remdesivir injections from dead Covid -19 patients in order to sell them in the black market.  Nagpur DCP V Neelotpal on Friday said that the four work in different hospitals and 15 vials of the injection, in high demand amid a spike in Covid – 19 cases, have been seized from them.

The four were remanded in police custody till April 28, the DCP informed, and identified the accused as Dr Lokesh Shahu, and ward boys Shubham Mohdure, Kunal Kohale and Sumit Bangde. The DCP also said that “When a patient used to die, they would enter the room in PPE kits, steal Remdesivir injections lying unused around and then sell each vial for as much as Rs 5,000.

A ward boy was also supplying them these injections for Rs 3,500 and the accused were selling it for Rs 16,000. They have been doing this for the past 10 days, we have found out. Another doctor and ward boy are also on the radar in this case”.