Auditor slams Lok Nayak Hospital for wastage
September 5th, 2011 - 10:07 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) Delhi government’s Lok Nayak hospital carried out “wasteful expenditure” totalling Rs.14.88 lakh, apart from Rs.75 lakh lost due to unused surgical instruments, according to the comptroller and auditor general (CAG) report tabled in the Delhi assembly Friday.
“Scrutiny of records revealed that the hospital had purchased 27,500 non-consumable surgical instruments for different departments costing Rs.1.22 crore in March 2001. After nine years, 28 to 84 percent of the instruments costing Rs 75 lakh were unused,” said the report for the year ending March 2010.
“Had the hospital assessed its requirements realistically, these instruments would not have been lying idle and funds could have been made available to other deserving areas,” the report said.
The central Delhi hospital functions as a tertiary referral centre with over 1,000 commissioned beds.
“(Further), excess purchase of stents by the hospital resulted in wasteful expenditure of Rs.14.88 lakh,” the report said.
The CAG report added the hospital could not install four modular operation theatres costing Rs.57.23 lakh even two years after receipt.
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