Three vials of Ambisome 50 mg stolen, says pharmacist Antifungal injections stolen from city hospital 2 held of illegal sale of remdesivir

Three vials of anti-fungal injections were reported stolen from a private hospital in Panjagutta. Police booked a case following a complaint from its head of pharmacy department and started a probe.

According to police, a complaint was received from Mallikarjuna Rao, pharmacy head of department of Virinchi Hospitals, Banjara

Hills, wherein he stated that someone has stolen three vials of Ambisome 50 mg, used for fungal infections, on the intervening night of May 18 and May 19 from the central pharmacy located in the second floor of the hospital.

“It was also informed that during the night, Anand Rao Doreddula, a pharmacist and Akash Ganesh, a guard, were on duty. Therefore the management suspects them,” said police, who booked a case and started a probe.

The North Zone Task Force on Friday apprehended two persons along with an SUV, which had ‘TPCC OBC department co-ordinator’ written on the front and back number plates, for illegally selling remdesivir and methylprednisolone sodium succinate (MSS) injection vials. Officials seized 40 MSS and 12 remdesivir vials from them.

The accused, Dalapati Bhuvaneshwar Raju, 37, is into the civil contract business, and Kanneganti Manasa (32), is employed at a consultancy in Banjara Hills. They were selling each vial for `15,000.

On credible information, the police laid a trap in Secunderabad and intercepted their car (AP31 CC 5779) and apprehended them. The car is registered in the name of Veeranna Bhukya.

“The car belongs someone else and he allegedly borrowed police said.

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