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An enormous rip-off has come to gentle within the Rajasthan Government Health Scheme (RGHS) run for presidency staff in Rajasthan. Crores of rupees have been manipulated by the connivance of medical doctors and personal drug shopkeepers. Doctors wrote medicines arbitrarily to the sufferers. The extent was reached when the physician of a major well being middle in Jaipur wrote a male affected person a breast most cancers drugs and took his cash from a shopkeeper. This disclosure has been investigated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise.
Investigation has revealed that remedy of 34 sufferers was proven from the identical CT scan. Millions of medicines got to the identical household. 2000 crore medicines had been fed to authorities staff by faux. Expensive kidney and most cancers medicines had been written.
AI expertise revealed fraud
When AI expertise scanned the medical doctors’ slips, it was discovered that each one the sufferers had been written as costly medicines. Many sufferers of Pali, Bhilwara and Mandawar had been written on comparable slips. In 2021-22, 289.89 crores was spent on medicine in RGHS, which elevated to 2566.64 crore in 2024-25.It was spent 2276.75 crore extra in three years.
In the identical means, Dr. Kesar Singh of Sriganganagar wrote 38 lakh 23 thousand medicines for his circle of relatives. Talking in regards to the individuals, the free drugs scheme for the individuals of Rajasthan is spending 1100 crores yearly, whereas 2000 crore medicines had been spent for 60 lakh authorities staff.
What is RGHS scheme?
Under the RGHS scheme, authorities staff have the power that by displaying the prescription of the physician, one should purchase drugs from the licensed non-public drug retailer. For this, staff wouldn’t have to pay any cash. The drug supplier itself makes a invoice of medicines and sends it to the finance division of the federal government. After this, it’s paid by the division.
