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| Pharmacist runs CMO's office, Nursing Orderly District Hospital Budgam | | Candidates without qualification selected @ Rs 1.00 Lakh each in NRHM | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 10: Now attached and subjected to administrative inquiry, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Budgam had outsourced his entire job to a Pharmacist, posted in his office for over 16 years. Medical Superintendent (MS) of District Hospital (DH) Budgam was operating through a Nursing Orderly who was last week found to have swindled over Rs 16 Lakh of NRHM funds in one go. It has now surfaced that senior officers of Health Department have manipulated appointments of staff in NRHM through their Class 4th and Class 3rd subordinates against cash payment of bribes ranging between Rs 50,000 and Rs 1,50,000 from each selected candidate.
Ask anybody in the district name of the CMO and the answer will be invariably "Nisar Ahmed Dada". Dada, in fact, is a Pharmacist who has remained posted at CMO's office for the last over 16 years. Only one CMO, namely Dr Mushtaq (now retired), had the spine to shift him to Khag Block but the favourite of influential senior officials managed to come back with a year or so. Enjoying blessings of these officers, Dada held key portfolios like Stores. For the last several years, he is operating as head of entire Administration in Budgam district.
According to medical as well paramedical staff, CMO Budgam Dr Abdullah had entrusted Dada with the "powers" of transferring the staff as well as picking up candidates for the Class 4th vacancies, notified last year, and entire NRHM staff. Rates between Rs 50,000 and 1,50,000 stood fixed for the incumbents, depending upon wages stipulated for the posts. Those selected and appointed as Female Multipurpose Workers (FMPWs) in different blocks of the district included girls who had not even appeared in final examination of the Paramedical diploma held by State Medical Faculty.
CMO of Aga Syed Yousuf Memorial District Hospital of Budgam, Dr Nazir Ahmed Qanoongo, had appointed a class 4themployee, namely Mudassir Hussain (Nursing Orderly) as chief operator of the NRHM. The Nursing Orderly landed in Police custody only when his fraudulent withdrawal of the huge amount of Rs 16.50 Lakh surfaced dramatically. Before he would reveal names of others involved in the scandal, his patrons managed to get him released on bail. Residents and the hospital staff are even suspecting the role of Budgam Police in "going slow" in the investigation that has every potential of making the investigators richer. |
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