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Within the state authorities’s crackdown on malpractices within the healthcare system, seven docs posted in Shikhar district have been suspended and prison proceedings have been initiated in opposition to hospitals and diagnostic facilities in Rajasthan. The motion adopted an audit that detected inconsistencies within the implementation of the scheme.
Docs of Shri Kalyan Authorities Hospital and Authorities Medical School in Shikhar and Regional Well being Middle in Kehwa had been discovered to be concerned in irregularities within the Rajasthan Authorities Well being Scheme (RGHS) for presidency staff and pensioners, Rajasthan Chief Well being Secretary Gayatri Rathore stated right here on Saturday (February 14, 2026).
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Rathore stated first data studies (FIRs) have additionally been registered in opposition to Bharatpur Nursing Dwelling in Bharatpur and Bosra Diagnostic and Imaging Middle in Bikaner. Directions got to the medical well being officers of the 2 districts to provoke prison proceedings.
Investigation revealed that Bharatpur Nursing Dwelling and Kashish Pharmacy had been in collusion and creating pretend claims utilizing RGHS beneficiary playing cards. Sufferers had been handled with out RGHS approval and fraudulent costs had been made by means of pharmacies, inflicting monetary loss to the nationwide exchequer.
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Within the case of Bosra Diagnostic Middle, sufferers had been subjected to pointless diagnostic checks, and prescriptions had cast signatures and seals from docs who had been both on trip or not assigned to the hospital’s outpatient division through the related interval.
Earlier, 19 FIRs had been registered relating to RGHS fraud by hospitals, pharmacies and beneficiaries, 64 medical personnel had been suspended and round 500 RGHS beneficiary playing cards had been blocked. Rathore stated greater than Rs 32 million has been recovered from hospitals that had been discovered to be concerned in irregularities and canceled on these costs.
