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Covid India: Two held for allegedly selling beds in hospitals Web report/Bangalore Photo: AFP Social worker, nephew circulating WhatsApp messages offering help to patients. A ‘social worker’ and her nephew were arrested in Bangalore on Tuesday for allegedly ‘selling’ beds to Covid-19 patients at hospitals in the city. Harish Pandey, deputy commissioner of police (south), told the media that Nethravathy, 40, who claimed to be a social worker, and Rohith Kumar, 22, her nephew, would circulate WhatsApp messages offering help to patients find beds. “They might have had contacts in the municipal corporation war room which deals with bed allotment as well to get their work done,” he said. The police are also probing whether they had links with private hospitals.
Read more about IT industry veteran Nandan Nilekani helps revamp bed allocation software on Business Standard. This comes amid a surge in Covid cases in Bengaluru
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 5 (ANI): Former Karnataka Chief Minister and JDS leader HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday criticized the BJP-led state government for diverting people's attention from the Chamarajanagar hospital incident in which reportedly 24 people had died due to a shortage of oxygen wherein the Bengaluru police arrested a social worker and her nephew over an alleged irregularity in the allotment of COVID beds.
'Have some shame': Congress slams Tejasvi Surya for giving BBMP bed scam 'communal twist' 'Have some shame': Congress slams Tejasvi Surya for giving BBMP bed scam 'communal twist' The Congress has slammed BJP MP Tejasvi Surya for allegedly giving a communal twist to the BBMP bed scam he unearthed on Tuesday. advertisement File photo of BJP MP Tejasvi Surya | Credit: PTI Karnataka Congress MLA Rizwan Arshad on Wednesday hit out at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Tejasvi Surya for allegedly giving a communal twist to the BBMP bed scam. The BJP MP had on Tuesday revealed a bed-for-bribe scam going on at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) war room for bed allocation. While addressing the press conference, Tejasvi Surya gave details of the scam and assured the people of Bengaluru that those behind the graft would be taken to task.
Highlights Bangalore Mirror’s report ‘Agent 420’ creates shockwaves; panel set up to fix the broken bed allocation system and weed out the agents The crooks were using ‘admin-type login IDs’ to override the system and block beds A day after Bangalore Mirror reported that confidential information about covid positive patients was being leaked and misused by unscrupulous elements to make money, the authorities have taken notice. In a press conference that has exposed the dark side of bed management and how people gasping for breath are being forced to shell out money, Tejasvi Surya, Member of Parliament, Bengaluru South, made some revelations.
Bengaluru reported over 20,000 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours on Tuesday evening (File) Bengaluru: Two people have been arrested, and others are being questioned, after BJP Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya accused city municipal officials of accepting bribes to allot hospital beds in the city - a precious commodity as the Covid pandemic rages. The arrested have been identified as Rohit and Netra; they allegedly charged between Rs 25,000 and Rs 50,000 for a bed, and police recovered Rs 1.05 lakh from their bank account. Mr Surya had alleged that a "nexus of BBMP officials and frontline health workers" is conspiring to "buy" these beds after snatching them away from people who were dying without ICU care.
Ruling party legislators allege bed blocking scam in Bengaluru Updated: Updated: Police conduct sting operation, arrest two suspected to have contacts in BBMP war room Share Article Police conduct sting operation, arrest two suspected to have contacts in BBMP war room In an embarrassing turn of events for the government, a group of ruling party legislators led by Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, accompanied by three MLAs from the South Zone, live streamed an exposé of alleged corruption in bed allocation for COVID-19 patients by the city’s civic body. The alleged scam in the South Zone war room has raised questions on the integrity of the bed allocation system across the city.
Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya Alleges Irregularities And Anomalies By BBMP Officials Resulted In Fake Bed Scarcity In Silicon City by Harsha Bhat - May 4, 2021 12:26 PM MP Tejasvi Surya with MLAs Satish Reddy and Uday Garudachar Snapshot At a press meet on Tuesday evening, Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya alleged that a nexus of officials and Arogya Mithras and staff of certain hospitals has been creating a shortage of beds in the city by blocking them for asymptomatic and home isolation patients, most of whom werenât even aware of the same. There are enough beds in Bengaluru city but none of them were available to people as war room personnel have been running a racket of false blocking beds and then allotting them to those they please, Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya has alleged today in a press meet today.
Owners say that any extension in restrictions will spell doom for business Many parts of Bengaluru, which would have otherwise been packed, were noticeably empty on Wednesday, a day after the government introduced restrictions and shut down theatres, hotels, malls, and gyms for two weeks. People whose livelihoods are dependent on these sectors fear that the “semi-lockdown” will be extended beyond the two weeks. Any such extension will “ruin our business irrevocably”, said proprietors who are still to recover from last year’s lockdown. Chandrashekhar Hebbar, president, Karnataka Regional Hotels’ and Restaurants’ Association, argued that opening only for takeaways was not viable. Most hotels will shut shop, he predicted. “Already hit from the restrictions last year, nearly 3,000 hotels wound up business. This year too, we may see a repeat of the situation,” he said.