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Health deptt makes purchases worth Rs 80 cr on expired rate contracts 6/28/2016 12:02:36 AM Jehangir Rashid Early Times Report SRINAGAR, June 27: The Health and Medical Education department has spent an amount of around 80 crores on the purchase of medicines and equipments on the basis of expired rate contracts from open market for the year ending March 31, 2015. In its report for the year ending March 31, 2015, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has written that large scale procurements were made by the Health and Medical Education department on the basis of expired rate contracts. These procurements were made from outside health institutions and from the local market. The department purchased medicines for 44.28 crores and equipments for Rs. 34.80 crores under this arrangement. The CAG report pointed out that 50.95 lakh tablets purchased by the department worth Rs. 82. 74 lakhs have been declared 'Not of Standard Quality' and these tablets have been issued for supply to the patients. The report said that procurement of machinery/equipment to the extent of Rs. 1.17 crores had been made on the basis of fake/forged supply orders of the outside health institutions. The CAG report said that expenditure on procurement of medicines and equipment ranged between five and seven percent of the total allocation of the department. The report said that 59 percent of funds under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) provided for procurement of medicine, machinery and equipment remained unspent. The CAG report said that rate contracts finalized by the purchase committees showed cases of non-adherence to codal provisions, non-adoption of best practices and irregularities in the finalization of individual rate contracts. It said the machinery/equipment valuing Rs. 1.21 crores had not been installed due to non-availability of infrastructure, trained manpower etc. The CAG report said that purchase committees had repeatedly been restructured/reconstituted affecting their working adversely, as no comprehensive Annual Rate contracts had been finalized during 2010-15. The report said that Medical Supplies Corporation constituted in May 2013 had not been made functional. The CAG report said that purchase manual had not been prepared by the department. The report said that even after lapse of about three years of adoption of drug policy, a drug formulary had not been prepared. The report said that no specific policy guidelines were put in place for testing of drugs before these are administered to patients. The CAG report said that Health and Medical Education department is entrusted with the responsibility of extending health care facilities in the state. It said the availability of adequate medicines and equipment in the health institutions is a pre-requisite for the betterment of health care facilities in the state.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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