Serious financial and administrative irregularities have been revealed at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s MTI District Headquarters (DHQ) Teaching Hospital Dera Ismail Khan.
According to the hospital’s internal audit report, evidence of corruption, negligence and misuse of authority worth more than Rs 410 million has come to light.
The report received by Pakhtun Digital claims that the female store in-charge stole medicines worth about Rs 135.499824 and sold them illegally.
Similarly, medicines worth Rs 43.172300 provided by a contractor were also found missing.
The report also mentions the illegal sale of medicines worth Rs 25.03020 from Mufti Mahmood Memorial Hospital.
According to the audit report, Dr. Farrukh Jamil was illegally appointed as the hospital director, after which he received salaries and benefits of Rs 281,000.
He issued illegal salaries of Rs 39.7 million 250 to other employees without approval.
The report further revealed that the CT scan contract was illegally awarded to Laiba International Peshawar, as a result of which the government had to pay an unnecessary subsidy of Rs 83.9 million 5,420.
Similarly, the contract for the supply of medical gas was also awarded in a non-transparent manner for Rs 66.0 million 7,194, as a result of which dry gas was provided to patients without protective equipment, which has been declared a very dangerous practice.
The report mentions other irregularities in which Rs 15.5 million 8,330 was embezzled from laboratory and X-ray revenues.
Along with this, Rs 68 lakh was unnecessarily spent in the purchase of OTC medicines. A loss of Rs 5 crore was also incurred in the matter of the hospital’s solar system. The report recommends immediate action against the concerned persons after these serious irregularities, return of the stolen funds and fundamental reforms in the hospital’s administrative system so that such corruption can be prevented in the future.
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