India Fraudsters Selling Fake Covid Drugs And Medical Supplies

 

India has reported its lowest covid case numbers in more than 40 days, with around one hundred sixty five thousand new infections today during the country's devastating second wave of the virus. 

Police in Delhi have made more than 350 arrests for fraud relating to counterfeit medical supplies. Many families have fallen victim to the con men offering fake oxygen and drugs on social media. 

This was Delhi in its darkest hour, the peak of the second wave in India's capital. The patients gasping for breath, but at a time of desperate prayers, often unanswered among dwindling supplies and to the profiteers and the covid con men. This was one scam among many fire extinguishers sold as oxygen cylinders on social media.

Ayana Traore is a lawyer by training, but she was ensnared by scammers as she tried to save her mother, Sadhana.

The 50 year old business woman was fun, loving and energetic when she came down with covid doctors prescribed injections of the antiviral drug Ramdisk severe. I.A. searched in chemists and hospitals all over the city.

Daughter and father were searching for the covid drugs to be administered to her.

Eventually, she and her father paid five times the normal price for this bought from a supplier whose number was circulating on social media. behold it  was fake. The real drug is on the right. They found out too late. 

This assembly line for fake from Xavier was shot down by Delhi police. Elsewhere, they've detained one man. In Sadr's case, they've been parading suspects after making about 350 arrests in recent weeks. This cyber crime specialist in the Indian police for 30 years says he's witnessed a new low.