JammuCAG raps Govt for issuing substandard medicines

CAG raps Govt for issuing substandard medicines

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SRINAGAR: The Comptroller and Auditor General CAG has rapped and and Medical Department for issuing substandard medicines worth Rs 82.74 lakh to patients and procurement of machinery for Rs 1.17 crore on the basis of fake or forged supply orders.

Food controller organisations in Srinagar and Jammu had lifted 1,833 samples from health institutions during 2010-15, out of which 43 samples were declared as ‘not of standard quality', the CAG said in its report which was tabled in the state Assembly this week.

However, cross check of the data in the sampled health institutions showed that 50.95 lakh tablets, capsules and injections worth Rs 82.74 lakh declared ‘not of standard quality' had been issued for supply to patients.

“This was due to absence of a proper mechanism for monitoring of reports once the samples were lifted by the Drug and Food Controller organisation as by the time test reports had been received by the hospitals entire quantity of drugs and medicines of the sampled drug or medicines had been administered either fully or partly to the patients,” it said.

Against total allocation of Rs 167.29 crore from 2010-11 to 2014-15 for procurement of medicines, machinery and equipment under NRHM (CSS), Rs 99.05 crore (59 per cent) remained unspent resulting in non-extension of intended benefits to the patients, the report said.

Of the unutilised amount, Rs 20.82 crore remained blocked for a period ranging from two to five years, it said.

With regard to purchase of machinery and equipment, the report said audit analysis showed that out of 1,014 supply orders worth Rs 81.57 crore issued by the test check health institutions during 2010-15, 93 supply orders worth Rs 11.41 crore had been placed against rate contracts, validity of which had expired.

As many as 581 supply orders with a value of Rs 19.17 crore had been placed on the basis of rate contracts finalised by the health institutions located outside the state and on the DGSD rate contracts, the report said.

Out of 236 supply orders worth Rs 5.81 crore placed by the district hospitals, supplies worth Rs 4.22 crore involving 193 supply orders had been procured from the open market, it said.

It said since the health institutions had placed supply orders on the basis of photocopies of the outside health institutions like AIIMS New Delhi and PGI Chandigarh, audit carried out cross verification of a sample of 24 supply orders issued by the two institute to ascertain the genuineness of the supply orders.

 

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