DCP Monika Bhardwaj has emerged as a hero the people need during these unprecedented times. When DCP Bhardwaj received the information about Ambulance Company charging an unbelievably high amount to shift Covid19 patient, she took the charge of the situation and made sure the patient’s family gets a refund.
A woman named Amandeep Kaur was unable to find a hospital bed with adequate facilities for her Covid positive mother. After a lot of effort, she managed to get a bed at a hospital in Ludhiana. In order to shift her mother from Gurugram to Ludhiana, a distance of nearly 350 km, she hired an ambulance.
The ambulance operator charged her Rs 1.20 lakh for just a 350 km journey. Amandeep Kaur said that the driver charged her Rs. 1.40 lakh. Her mother was in critical condition and she wanted an ambulance with an adequate oxygen supply. On arguing about the high charges the driver refused to budge. Later, on insisting that the family already has an oxygen cylinder, the ambulance operator cut charges by only 20,000.
“I had no option since my mother’s life was at stake,” said Amandeep Kaur.
After admitting her mother to the hospital, Amandeep shared the ambulance bill with a relative on social media. As the picture of the bill caught the eye of Delhi police, DCP Monika Bhardwaj returned the entire amount to the patient’s family. An FIR was filed against the Ambulance Company and the owner is arrested.
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DCP Monika Bhardwaj said, “Though we had not received any complaint, we took the company to task. Multiple cases are coming across us where ambulance service providers and pharmacists are fleecing patients.”
Monika Bhardwaj is one of the most honest and first women DCP in the Delhi Police Crime Branch. Earlier, Delhi police under DCP Monika Bhardwaj busted a racket of fake Remdesivir injections in Uttarakhand in which 7 were arrested.
The crime branch carried raid s in Roorkee, Haridwar, and Kotdwar and had seized 196 ready-to-use fake injections. In an interview, DCP Bhardwaj said that earlier they had received information about pharmaceuticals charging Rs 30,000 for Remdesivir injection whose actual cost is Rs 3000. Following the leads, the crime branch was able to bust this pharmaceutical plant manufacturing fake Remdesivir.
Witnessing the current situation it is obvious that people are not dying of corona but of lack of Covid treatment, scams related to medical supplies, and corruption. In such a critical situation, the nation needs more honest and brave officers like DCP Monika Bhardwaj.