India is currently going through a massive Covid 19 wave and there has been a shortage of not only medical oxygen but also some of the medicines. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel recently wrote to the Union Health Minister requesting him to declare Covid 19 drugs as “essential commodities”.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Requests The Union Health Minister To Stop Black Marketing
As per the reports, Chhattisgarh CM wrote in the letter that they been taking several measures to ensure that the Covid 19 patients are being well taken care of. This includes Remdesivir injection, Favipiravir capsule, Tocilizumab, Enoxaparin injection, Dexamethasone tablet and Ivermeticin tablets. However, the increase in the demand of these medicines has led to hoarding and selling them in the black market.
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In the letter, he requested the Union Health Minister to immediately put these medicines under the category of essential commodities. He said that adding these medicines under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 will not only assist the state government in ensuring the stoppage of black marketing but also to control the availability of these drugs.
Police Arrests 19 For Hoarding Covid 19 Drugs
As per the latest reports, police recently held a racket of hospital staffers and some people from the medical college in Madhya Pradesh. The arrested were hoarding the Remdesivir injection for the Covid 19 patients at a private hospital and then sell it on huge prices in the black market.
The police said that the ones who have arrested are the workers at the Deshmukh Hospital and Research Centre. They were able to procure the Remdesivir injections by not giving them to the patients who were prescribed of the same. They were able to convince the patients they have been given the same but they weren’t actually.
The state police is currently working towards creating a task force to bust the black marketing rackets across the state.
