Bed blocking: One more person arrested
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The police are probing yet one more mattress allotment rip-off involving an Arogya Mitra that was allegedly working a racket at Manipal Hospital on Old Airport Road. An inspection crew comprising a number of officers together with Manivannan, Secretary, Animal Husbandry Department, and Alok Kumar, ADGP, (KSRP), discovered irregularities in reference to the admission and discharge of the sufferers.
As a part of his job, the accused, Pavan Shetty, coordinated with the federal government’s Suvarna Arogya Suraksha Trust (SAST) portal which reveals the obtainable authorities quota beds each in authorities and personal hospitals.
Kolar and Tumakuru
“Pavan was in charge of the admission of 19 COVID-19 patients that had been referred to the hospital by the BBMP with BU numbers. However, an inspection team comprising two senior officials discovered that he had two patients from Kolar and Tumakuru districts,” stated a senior police officer.
When the crew visited the ward they discovered that Shetty had allegedly blocked as many as seven beds within the identify of some sufferers who had been discharged per week in the past. “He admitted two persons from Kolar and Tumakuru without verification and had allotted those beds to them with different index names. The BU code is generated only for residents of Bengaluru,” stated a senior police official.
Based on the grievance filed by Ravindra Kumar, Executive Engineer of BWSSB, who was a part of the inspection crew, the JB Nagar police registered a FIR towards Shetty and arrested him.
He has been booked below the Disaster Management Act, 2005, and in addition below related sections of the Indian Penal Code. The police have taken him into custody for additional investigation.
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