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Expensive Cancer Drugs Missing From Delhi Government Hospital, Police Register FIR
- •Four vials of the expensive cancer injection Nimotuzumab have gone missing from the Delhi State Cancer Institute.
- •An FIR was registered at the GTB Enclave police station on October 12 based on a complaint filed by hospital administration.
- •Police sources estimate a single vial to cost around Rs 4 lakh, while health officials claim it is between Rs 35,000 and Rs 50,000.
- •Information has also emerged regarding missing units of the antiviral drug Sofosbuvir, though it was not in the initial complaint.
- •This incident follows a recent major crackdown by the Delhi Police Crime Branch on an inter-state network dealing in stolen cancer drugs.
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Four vials of the Nimotuzumab injection, a monoclonal antibody used in targeted cancer treatments, were reported missing from the hospital's chemo daycare department refrigerator. Additionally, units of the antiviral medication Sofosbuvir were discovered missing, though it was omitted from the formal police complaint.
An FIR was registered at the GTB Enclave police station on October 12 based on a formal complaint filed by the hospital administration. The complaint noted that the Nimotuzumab vials were placed in the refrigerator on October 3 and discovered missing on October 5.
Police sources estimated that a single vial of the missing Nimotuzumab injection costs around Rs 4 lakh, while a senior health department official placed the value between Rs 35,000 and Rs 50,000 per vial. Meanwhile, a strip of 28 tablets of Sofosbuvir typically ranges from Rs 10,000 to Rs 13,000 in the market.
