The Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) conducted massive raids at various government hospitals in the state, a first of its kind large scale operation in a single day, to book numerous hospital staffs for various irregularities, mainly bribe and corruption.

This follows the last week operation held in the government maternity hospitals in Chennai, in which 19 hospital staffs were arrested for corruption and bribes.

According to reports from Madurai, the DVAC operation lasting 12 hours at the Madurai Rajaji hospital caused arrest of two hospital workers who demanded bribes. A few other hospital staffs were given warnings, and even doctors had come under the scrutiny of the police in plain clothes who acted as patients or their bystanders.

At Dindigul, DVAC team raided the Dindigul Government hospital and caught a hospital worker red handed for demanding bribe. Unaccounted money worth over Rs.1500 was found from the handbag of a hospital worker, besides stolen injections vials and tablets.

In Tiruchi, four employees of the Tiruchi Annal Gandhi Memorial Hospital were arrested for accepting bribes from the patients.

In Tirunelveli, the DVAC team raided the Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital, Palayamkottai, and detected that medicines worth over Rs.10, 000 were missing from the stocks as per the records. A case has been registered in this regard against the concerned officials.

At Ramanathapuram, the vigilance team led by DSP Mohan took four hospital workers into custody for accepting bribes at the Government Headquarters Hospital, said various reports.