Male nurse steals stents from Delhi's ILBS, sells to private hospital at Rs 1.4 lakh each

The Delhi Police are investigating the alleged role of a government hospital staff in selling hospital-owned stents to private hospitals.

Police have booked Anil Lamba, employed as a nurse at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) based on the complaint received from the deputy head (operations). Lamba has been booked for criminal breach of trust, criminal misappropriation and cheating.

He was entrusted with the store's consumables and utilisation of medical consumables, including stents in the interventional Radiology department.

ILBS being a government institution got stents supplied at a concessional rate. Lamba,



according to an FIR, used to illegally sell the stents at Rs 1,44,000 each, to hospitals in Kerela in connivance with his wife.

The subsidised rates at which the stents were supplied was Rs 90,000 each.

Describing the modus operandi, the police were told that Lamba misappropriated and removed the stents owned by the govt hospital and not meant for resale.

It is alleged that he in connivance with his associates fabricated false documents to cover up the illegal activities. Lamba has been granted interim protection from arrest till August 8 from the Delhi High Court.

He has applied for bail in the high court, which remains pending.