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| INFRINGEMENT: LDH Srinagar messes with financial codal formalities | | Rs 9 crores' erroneous purchases invite special audit by Finance Department | | Akshay Azad
JAMMU, Sept 27: In total violation of financial codal formalities as envisaged under norms of Health Department, the administration of Lal Ded Hospital Srinagar had made purchases to the tune of nearly Rs. 9 Crores for implementation of Janani-Shishu Suraksha Karyakram (JSSK).
According to a report compiled by a monitoring team of health department, a copy of which is in possession of Early Times, revealed that during the financial year 2012-13, an amount of Rs. 234.68 Lakhs were utilized for procurement of drugs/ medicines under JSSK out of available funds. Maximum of procurements were made locally under JSSK without obtaining the proper approval from the competent authority, the report added.
The monitoring committee report further maintained that in the financial year 2013-14, an amount of Rs. 430 Lacs from State Health Society and Rs. 320 Lacs from state government under drugs was received totaling Rs. 750 Lacs, out of which Rs. 845.64 Lacs was utilized leaving a liability of Rs. 95.65 lacs in the last quarter of 2013-14, which was not justified because the report of hospital showed that 10038 normal and 15448 C-section deliveries were conducted, totaling to 25486 deliveries.
"Maximum purchases were made locally without observing proper codal formalities as issued under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, GoI", the report further revealed.
The report also pointed towards the money spent on printing. "An amount of Rs. 1.73 Lacs was spent on printing which is not admissible under JSSK", the monitoring report further stated.
The monitoring report was compiled by a team comprising of State Nodal Officer JSSK Dr. Harjeet Rai, Divisional Nodal Officer Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad, Assistant Programme Manager Dr. Arshid Nazir, Divisional Accounts Manager Mukesh Kumar, which was deputed to Lal Ded hospital Srinagar for preliminary enquiry into the utilization of funds under JSSK and JSY.
The monitoring committee further pointed out that during interaction with the attendants of mother beneficiaries, the hospital authorities were asked to pay Rs. 20 as stationary charges for getting Janani Suraksha Yojna (JSY) cheque. "The dealing assistant assigned the job of JSY disbursement admitted in presence of Medical Superintendent, Deputy MS, Account Officer and the team from SHS that he is charging Rs. 10 only from the beneficiaries as stationery charges", the monitoring committee further pointed out.
It further observed that hundreds of JSY signed cheques were found in possession of dealing assistant and some of them were post dated also. "Beneficiaries are getting cheques after a month or two and there are unnecessary obstacles like production of I-card, four signatories instead of two in distributing JSY Cheques", the monitoring team reported and also had reportedly advised Medical Superintendent to stop the practice of getting Rs. 10 for issuance of JSY cheque and issue necessary instructions in writing and penalize the persons involved in malpractices.
In the concluding paragraph the monitoring team recommended that the Finance Department be approached to depute a team from Audit and Inspection for conducting detail audit of office of Medical Superintendent LD Hospital Srinagar. |
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