Fake docs employed in MP Covid hospitals, says police

The special task force (STF) of Madhya Pradesh police, on Saturday, launched a drive to identify imposters serving as doctors in private Covid hospitals in the state.

The move comes in the wake of the arrest of two ‘fake’ doctors employed by two private Covid hospitals in Jabalpur in the state.

The two imposters, identified as Neeraj Sahu (26) and Jatindra Singh Thakur (26), were arrested on charges of involvement in black marketing of life saving drug Remdesivir recently.

They were serving as doctors in two private Covid hospitals, Life Medicity Hospital and Ashish Hospital, in Jabalpur.

“We have found that the two ‘doctors’ have no genuine medical degree certificates. We have ordered the district chief medical health officers to verify the medical degrees of doctors serving in private Covid hospitals following the development,” STF superintendent of police Neeraj Soni said.

Investigation by the police has led to disclosure that while Sahu was never a student of any medical college, Thakur dropped out after his fourth year in MBBS.

The two imposters, along with a nurse of a private hospital in Jabalpur, were allegedly involved in the racket of stealing the antiviral drug from the hospitals and selling them in the black market when the demand for the lifesaving drug was at its peak in April-May this year.

Meanwhile, the probe into the ‘disappearance’ of Remdesivir injections from the store room of a government hospital here in April this year has hardly progressed, raising many eyebrows in the official circle here.

Around 850 vials of the antiviral drug had disappeared and later surfaced in the store room when the state government ordered a probe into it.

The ‘undue’ delay in the investigation has given birth to suspicion that efforts were being made to shield the culprits, sources said.