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SKIMS Soura under scanner for multi-million Covid deal
7/14/2020 12:19:07 AM

Early Times Report

Srinagar, July 13: The SK Institute of Medical Sciences Soura here has come under the scanner of the Jammu and Kashmir government for the allegedly shady deal worth millions for procurement of a testing machine for the Covid19.
Sources said around three months ago, the SKIMS purchased a testing machine called RNA-Extractor worth millions that is used to test Covid samples from a dealer without tendering.
Sources said the Raj Bhawan has come to know that the machine was procured without the re-agents or chemicals that are needed for running the machine to do tests.
“This machine cannot run without reagents and thus it was sheer misuse of public money,” said a senior official.
Sources said the government has got inputs that the machine was purchased hurriedly by one of the top officials at the hospital from a dealer personally known to him.
“This deal was done wrongly because how can you buy an incomplete machine. If the businessman was not having the reagents needed for the tests, what was the fun of buying the machine unless there were some personal interests involved,” said a senior official on the condition of anonymity.
Sources said the machine worth millions has been lying idle at the SKIMS laboratory since the day of purchase and that the said dealer has been unable to deliver the reagents.
Sources said the SKIMS authorities had even misled the Raj Bhawan claiming that the machine was already in use till the authorities got the complaint that the machine was not running at all.
It was reliably learnt that apprehending an inquiry the SKIMS officials have been asking the said businessman to deliver the chemicals at an earliest so that the machine is put use as early as possible.
“But till now there has been no breakthrough,” said a source.
When contacted the SKIMS officials said the delivery of the chemicals was expected soon. “Lockdown had hindered the delivery of the chemicals but we are hopeful of getting the delivery soon,” said a senior official on the condition of anonymity.
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