00:00The worst kind of scam has been busted in Bengaluru.
00:04Fake cancer drugs, fake ICU medications, fake injections
00:09found to be distributed in several hundred hospitals in the city.
00:15So essentially, life-saving medicines given to some of the most needy patients
00:19and after shelling out, I'm not exaggerating,
00:21lax for just a few doses, all of that completely useless.
00:25The suspicion is that more than 90 hospitals and clinics
00:28across the city of Bengaluru were actually supplied
00:31with these counterfeit medications.
00:33And let's show you the man behind this racket.
00:36That's the man there.
00:37He's a pharmacy owner and there's a reason we want to name and shame him today
00:42because he's the one who's treated so many patients
00:45across the city of Bengaluru and he's part of a network
00:47that was supplying these fake cancer medicines,
00:50life-saving drugs and ICU injections to hospitals, clinics and medical shops,
00:54all of it reportedly at discounts.
00:56He's just one off an entire network that's still being busted.
01:01Let's be clear that this is the worst kind of betrayal,
01:05the worst kind of racket.
01:07It's also, however, a reminder that absolutely nothing is spared in this country,
01:10nothing is safe, not even supposedly life-saving drugs.
01:14And how can any of us honestly tell if the medicines now we're taking
01:17is safe or not?
01:18We're not experts in the matter.
01:20What a doctor prescribes, we take.
01:21When a patient pays lax for cancer treatment,
01:25this isn't an expense on luxury.
01:28They're buying time.
01:29They're buying a chance to live.
01:31And these monsters have snatched that away from them,
01:34turning that desperation into a business opportunity.
01:38Like I said, this is still being investigated.
01:40So we still don't know the depths of this racket,
01:44if there are other cities or also where we're seeing a similar situation play out.
01:48And how would any of us know?
01:52In a major crackdown by Karnataka Health Department
01:55and special investigation team formed by the Karnataka government
01:59to crackdown on fake medicines and drugs
02:03had created multiple places across the state.
02:06And one such place is Kripa Healthcare in Minava Circle in Bengaluru.
02:11Right now, this particular healthcare has been shut down and seized.
02:15According to police, this particular Kripa Healthcare used to rebrand low-cost cancer medicine.
02:22Not only rebranding, they used to relabel expired medicines
02:28and used to supply to all the hospitals, medical shops and clinics.
02:34And what they used to is, they used to collect all these medicines here in boxes like this.
02:39And thereafter, they used to rebrand here inside this particular healthcare office.
02:46And from here, they used to supply across the state at a 50% discount.
02:53Remember, 50% discount of all these fake medicines.
02:58Police also verifying documents and the invoices that have been collected
03:05and trying to crack the network chain involved in this particular major fake cancer medicine racket.
03:15With you, Rajal Shivu, Sakai Raj, reporting for India Today, Bengaluru.
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