Greater Noida: The state government has ordered a probe into an alleged case of siphoning off funds from the patient welfare committee (PWC) using fake bills by authorities of a government community
health centres (CHC) and two primary health
centres (PHC) in Gautam Budh Nagar.
The probe has been initiated after a local activist in
Greater Noida lodged a complaint on the chief minister’s IGRS (integrated grievance redressal system) portal alleging that the authorities at the Dadri CHC and the PHCs in Jarcha and Khandera faked bills to the tune of Rs 1,60,000 on the pretext of repair of
reverse osmosis systems and purchase and installation of coolers and furniture.
“The building of the Jarcha PHC, which was inaugurated on March 27 last year, is just one-year-old and there is not enough infrastructure and furniture that the repairs of them took Rs 70,000. Further, the repair of reverse osmosis (RO) systems has been shown to cost Rs. 50,000. This even as all there are only three RO systems in the PHC which are not functioning,” reads the complaint by activist Kapil Sharma.
Renu Gupta, joint director (medicine, health and family welfare) in the
Meerut division, told TOI that they have received a direction from the additional director (personnel) Surbhi Sinha after the IGRS complaint was forwarded to them.
“Our visit to the centres was scheduled on Tuesday but was cancelled because of an urgent meeting. We will soon call the complainant and the accused in the case,” she said.
Meanwhile, another inquiry has also been ordered into the matter at the district level.
The chief medical officer (CMO) Anurag Bhargava said that the district treasury officer and the district account manager will handle the inquiry.
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