Chandigarh, March 11 -- In light of an Ayushman Bharat scheme fraud coming to fore in February, PGIMER has decided to switch to an online indenting system.

The Ayushman Bharat scheme provides free treatment and medicines up to Rs.5 lakh per year for eligible families. For medicines costing above Rs.2,000, patients need the doctor's prescription in the indent book with stamps from the doctor, nursing officer, Ayushman counter and dispensary. These are then provided for free at PGIMER's Amrit Pharmacy.

But on February 18, a 25-year-old youth was caught fraudulently securing expensive medicines for free under the scheme from the pharmacy using stamps and indent books of hospital's urology department.

In response to this, PGIMER and AMRIT ...