King George’s Medical University (KGMU) is grappling with systemic operational failures as multiple independent scams and irregularities surface across its highest-volume clinical departments. From a multi-crore cancer drug procurement scam in the urology department to questionable stent installations in cardiology and a commission-based vendor racket in ophthalmology, transactions worth lakhs have allegedly bypassed mandatory administrative checks.
The overlapping scandals have intensified public and regulatory scrutiny just as Vice-Chancellor Dr. Soniya Nityanand enters the final months of her administrative tenure.
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The Urology Department Free Drug Diversion
The primary financial crisis centered on the government-funded Asadhya Rog Scheme, designed to provide life-saving, high-cost medicines free of charge to economically weaker citizens. Internal auditors grew suspicious when medicine procurement bills in the urology department suddenly skyrocketed from a baseline of ₹10 lakh per month to an unprecedented ₹45 lakh within a single 30-day window.
A specialized five-member inquiry committee confirmed that a fraudulent network used “emergency tags” to rapidly approve and siphon off expensive cancer medications, protein supplements, and iron injections. The investigation revealed that fake patient profiles were generated while genuine, critical cancer patients were forced to wait up to 20 days for real treatments. In several egregious instances, high-value drugs were repeatedly shown as prescribed and billed under the unique health identifiers of nearly 40 individuals who were either completely fictitious or already deceased.
Severe Disciplinary Action and Expansion to Seven Cancer Wings
Following the submission of the preliminary audit findings, the KGMU administration launched swift disciplinary cleanups. The university officially terminated three outsourced contractual employees—Sachin Tiwari, Prakash Singh, and H. Srivastava—who managed data entry workflows, while registering a formal police complaint to initiate criminal proceedings against them. Concurrently, a regular pharmacist posted at the local purchase counter was suspended, and the Head of the Urology Department, Dr. Apul Goel, was abruptly removed from his administrative post on grounds of gross monitoring negligence.
To ensure the systemic leak has not infected parallel oncology setups, the university has officially expanded the multi-departmental audit across seven additional cancer care divisions, including radiotherapy, medical oncology, surgical oncology, and endocrine surgery.
The Private Lens Routing Scheme in Ophthalmology
Simultaneously, a separate, long-running racket has been exposed inside KGMU’s ophthalmology department. Acting on a barrage of patient complaints, an internal investigation proved that an organized broker network was actively steering vulnerable patients away from the institutional Hospital Revolving Fund (HRF) and toward designated private shops to purchase premium intra-ocular cataract lenses and medicines.
The inquiry team examined 30 target cases, taking formal statements from 17 witnesses who detailed a calculated, commission-based referral pipeline. Most notably, data analysis showed that one specific department surgeon performed 244 cataract procedures over the last six months, yet only a solitary single surgery was logged under the state’s cashless welfare umbrella, the Ayushman Bharat Scheme. The remaining 243 operations were deliberately funneled as paid procedures.
Show-Cause Notices Issued to Institutional Leadership
The ophthalmology exposure has led to the immediate suspension of a department doctor and recommended departmental inquiries against the operating theater’s sister-in-charge for allowing unauthorized outside supplies into the surgical wing. Furthermore, a formal show-cause notice was issued to Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof. Apjit Kaur, who also functions as the Head of the Ophthalmology Department, demanding an immediate explanation regarding localized administrative blindspots and how an unauthorized broker managed to distribute private vendor routing slips inside the OPD for multiple years.
As a parallel five-member panel launches a high-level inquiry into the Lari Cardiology department over separate allegations concerning the medically unjustified implantation of five stents in a single patient under the Ayushman Bharat portal, KGMU spokespeople assert that these revelations prove the university’s newly introduced mobile tracking applications and monitoring standard operating procedures are working as intended to clean out historical institutional rot.
