A meeting of Khyber Pakhrunkhwa Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chaired by Idrees Khan here Wednesday directed health department to furnish a detailed report of irregularities being reported in purchase of hospital’s medical equipments and machinery.
The meeting was attended by MPAs including Inayat Ullah, Babar Saleem, Dr. Aasia Asad, Salahuddin and Jamshed Mohmand besides Special Secretary Health, Farooq Jamil and concerned officials of finance, audit and law departments.
The meeting directed health authorities to provide details of irregularities being reported in purchase of dialysis machines in District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital Charsadda in 2014-15, purchase of laundry unit in Moulvi Ameer Shah Hospital Peshawar and equipment purchased by District Health Office Lower Dir for various hospitals. Meeting also directed health department to devise a policy to avoid taking decision that contravenes the existing rules and regulations, and sought a inquiry report to identify the responsible officials for initiating recovery.
PAC meeting also settled three audit paras of Medical Teaching Institute Bannu and said that a portion of released amount that was spend on renovation should have utilized for providing health cover to Internally Displaced Persons in 2014-15. Participants constituted a inter departmental committee comprising officials of audit, finance, health and audit departments to investigate the matter after raising objections over the documents being presented to the members as insufficient.
