Dr Dharmendra Singh and Dr Narendra Singh were booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act after Riddhivinayak Critical Care and Cardiac Centre and Sanjeevani Surgical and General Hospital, both in Malad, alleged that they asked for a 20% commission on each of the medical bills sent for approval under the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana.
The state has started the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana for the economically weak , whose income is less than Rs 1 lakh per annum. Under the scheme , those who cannot meet their medical expenses at hospitals , can apply for a grant from the government that offers Rs 1.5 lakh to every family annually. Over 900 ailments are covered and benefactors can use their cards at any of the empanelled hospitals, public or private.
The government has assigned the task of distributing the funds to National Insurance Co Ltd, which, in turn, has outsourced the work to scrutinize the credentials of benefactors to a private company, MD India that acts as a third-party administrator . "The accused doctors' work was to check the patients' documents and sanction their bills sent from the hospitals where they had sought treatment. But Dr Dharmendra Singh and Dr Narendra Singh demanded a commission of 20% on every medical bill or Rs 20,000 per family ," said an ACB officer.
This is not the first case of doctors allegedly trying to siphon off money from a government fund set up to help the poor. In February, cancer patient Rajesh Singh had levelled a similar charge against former professor of surgery at JJ Hospital Dr T K Shahi and surgeon Wasim Ansari as well as a social worker, Irfan Tamboli. An oral cancer survivor, Singh had stated in his complaint that Dr Shahi, Dr Ansari and Tamboli, who was attached to Balaji Hospital , cheated him of Rs 2.5 lakh. Singh alleged that while the two doctors had charged him for the treatment, they pocketed the money claimed under the Rajiv Gandhi Yojana.
Advocate Vinay Rathi, who took up the case, said the Byculla police had never investigated the matter. "It was a big scam but the Byculla police, from the very beginning, were reluctant to register our complaint. More than seven months have passed but the accused doctors have not been arrested," he said.
Help for the poor
Under the Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojana, residents with an annual income of less than 1 lakh can apply for a medical grant from the state that extends 1.5 lakh to every family annually. The plan covers over 900 ailments and beneficiaries can avail of the scheme at any of the empanelled hospitals.
Charge against docs
Dr Dharmendra Singh and Dr Narendra Singh checked credentials of patients availing of the scheme's benefits and cleared their medical bills sent from hospitals. They allegedly demanded a 20% commission on every bill or 20,000 for sanctioning the bill of every family.
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