Taking serious cognisance of complaints about some miscreants cheating the needy Covid-19 patients after plasma, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Wednesday that the State Government would initiate stern action against those fleecing the people by making false claims of having tested positive for Covid-19 and promising donation of plasma samples for treatment.
Talking to media persons here, Deshmukh said: “Many infected people are getting cured by the plasma donated by the cured patients. ...It being the case that only the cured patients can donate plasma, some people are taking advantage of the situation to make false claims through affidavits that they had tested positive Covid-19 to make plasma donations”.
“Though no one has come forward to complain formally about lakhs of rupees collected from them by making false claims of having tested positive for Coronavirus and promising plasma samples, I have heard such things are happening. If the affected people come forward and lodge complaints with the police, we will take serious cognisance of the complaints and act sternly against the miscreants. We will allow miscreants cheating the Covid-19 patients who genuinely need plasma samples from the cured patients,” the Minister said.
“I request the affected Covid-19 patients to either lodge a complaint at the police station or make a complaint on www.cybercrime.gov.in,” Deshmulh said.