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Financial irregularities surface in Govt Hospital Gandhi Nagar Xerox copies of diet bills used for withdrawal: CAG 3/28/2015 11:57:34 PM Bivek Mathur Jammu, Mar 28 : Lack of internal control and monitoring in Government hospital, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu facilitated serious financial irregularities including fraudulent double drawls (Rs. 7.80 lakhs), suspected double drawl (Rs. 2.83 lakh) and short credit of hospital revenue (7.81 lakh) into hospital development funds.The figures were pointed out by Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in its report tabled in Legislative Assembly on March 27, 2015. The CAG pointed that a total amount of Rs. 10.63 lakh was drawn (on Feb 2012 to March 2013) towards payment of diet charges on the basis of Xerox copies of bills for payment to the diet contractor. Audit found that diet charges of Rs. 7.80 lakh pertaining to various periods (March 2009 to June 2009, March 2010, June 2010, June 2010 and November 2011 to September 2012) had already been drawn (August 2009 to March 2013) on the basis of original bills. The CAG further pointed that the balance diet charge of Rs. 2.83 lakh for the period July 2010 to September 2010 were drawn from the hospital developmental fund on Xerox copies of three bills and the original bills thereof were not produced to audit. The Medical Superintendent had not maintained a bill register to keep a watch on the period for which bills were preferred by the diet contractor and payments made to him from to time against the bills preferred. The CAG report also revealed that after these irregularities were pointed out in Audit, the Medical Superintendent got Rs. 6.41 lakhs recovered from the contractor. It may be worthwhile to mention here that the Health and Medical Education Department provides diet (through contractors) to indoor patients admitted in hospitals. Besides, free diet is provided to pregnant women during their stay in hospitals under the Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram (JSSK) component of the centrally sponsored programme "National Rural Health Mission". Further a government hospital has access to three sources for funding its expenditure: (a) funds drawn from the State Treasury provided by state government (b) funds directly provided by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under NRHM and kept in a separate bank account and (c) Hospital Developmental Fund (HDF) that has been authorized to be created by the government out of sundry revenue of the hospital (like moneys collected from sale of OPD tickets, use of medical facilities and diagnostic investigation etc.) and kept in a separate bank account.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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