2 Doctors Among 9 Arrested As Corruption Ring Busted At Delhi Hospital

The agency filed a first information report (FIR) on Tuesday in the matter, naming a professor and an assistant professor of the cardiology department of RML, a senior technical in-charge, a nurse, two clerks, several private medical equipment supplier companies, and unknown government servants.

“Information was received through a reliable source that several doctors and the employees of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, were indulging in corrupt practices and collecting bribes from patients either directly or indirectly through medical/supplier representatives of the companies supplying different equipment required for diagnosis and treatment of various patients,” said the CBI FIR, seen by HT.

This is the second such bribery scandal unearthed at a top government hospital in Delhi. In March last year, CBI arrested a neurosurgeon of Safdarjung Hospital, Dr Manish Rawat, along with his four accomplices for allegedly forcing patients to buy surgical equipment from a particular establishment at exorbitant prices.