Five members of the Shah family — Jayesh Shah, 44, Amit Shah, 45, Ghanshyam Shah, 65, Manoj Shah, 64, and Kishordas Shah, 88 — had been experiencing ill health.
Kishordas Shah died on April 17
A Kalyan-based family got cheated by a sample collection centre, which gave them a fake COVID report. The scam came to light when a member of the Shah family contacted the pathology lab, which supposedly did the test, to send a digital report to submit at KEM Hospital. The lab, however, had no record of the patient or the test.
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Jayesh Shah and Amit Shah
Five members of the Shah family — Jayesh Shah, 44, Amit Shah, 45, Ghanshyam Shah, 65, Manoj Shah, 64, and Kishordas Shah, 88 — had been experiencing ill health. Their relatives decided to get COVID tests done. Not able to find RT-PCR tests, they arranged for antigen tests for Rs 5,000 for five people via Aakash Parathe, a Swastik Pathology employee.
“A person named Satish Nair posing as a Thyrocare Pathology employee collected the swab samples. We got a ‘positive’ report for my uncle Kishordas. We also got CT scans done at another lab; those too states that my uncle was COVID positive. We got him admitted to KEM Hospital. The hospital asked us to provide an RT-PCR test report as well. So I told them about the antigen test and the CT scan and called Thyrocare’s customer care to get a digital antigen report to give the hospital. But to my shock, I was informed that Thyrocare had no such patient registered. Not did they have any report to send me,” said Sanjay Shah, Kishordas’s nephew.
Kishordas’s fake report that showed him as positive
Considering Kishordas’s age, KEM Hospital started his treatment. The whole family then went for a CT scan to check for lung infection. A week after being admitted, Kishordas died on April 17. “The fake reports gave us a lot of suffering,” Sanjay said.
Swastik Pathology’s Deepak Vishwakarma said, “Parathe resigned a few days ago. We found that he cheated several people in the city. We will register an FIR against him.”
Meanwhile, Parathe claimed, “Swastik Pathology is defrauding people and giving fake reports. I left because I did not want to be a part of it. I paid Shah family half the money from my own pocket.”
Thyrocare Pathology’s Officer of Audit & Redressal Sandeep Sandhu said, “We received a complaint from Sanjay Shah regarding overcharging and cheating. We will take action against the culprit misusing our name and logo. The Shah family was cheated by the collection team. We have asked the family to file an FIR too. Citizens can scan QR codes on top of the reports to know if they are genuine. A real Thyrocare report would generate the details of the patient through the QR code.
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