Healthcare: JPMC may lose Rs296m
Audit report says people have encroached upon hospital's property.
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KARACHI:
The Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) may lose Rs296 million as some people have encroached upon its property and are making the hospital pay even for electricity bills, an audit report said.
The management has not made serious efforts to remove these encroachments, resulting in unnecessary burden on its limited funds, said the auditor general of Pakistan.
JPMC was also at the centre of unauthorised payments of Rs255 million during the fiscal year 2011-2012. The money was paid as stipend to trainees without complying with the rules. The hospital paid non-practicing allowance of Rs5.96 million to various doctors, without obtaining any undertaking from them.
The auditor general also pointed out that the provincial programme director of Neonatal and Maternal Child Health (NMCH) was paid Rs43.66 million without any voucher, bank invoice or details on how the money was used. The NMCH director was also paid Rs34 million for repairs of regional health centres but the work was done at a higher cost by contractors not approved by the Pakistan Engineering Council.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2013.
The Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) may lose Rs296 million as some people have encroached upon its property and are making the hospital pay even for electricity bills, an audit report said.
The management has not made serious efforts to remove these encroachments, resulting in unnecessary burden on its limited funds, said the auditor general of Pakistan.
JPMC was also at the centre of unauthorised payments of Rs255 million during the fiscal year 2011-2012. The money was paid as stipend to trainees without complying with the rules. The hospital paid non-practicing allowance of Rs5.96 million to various doctors, without obtaining any undertaking from them.
The auditor general also pointed out that the provincial programme director of Neonatal and Maternal Child Health (NMCH) was paid Rs43.66 million without any voucher, bank invoice or details on how the money was used. The NMCH director was also paid Rs34 million for repairs of regional health centres but the work was done at a higher cost by contractors not approved by the Pakistan Engineering Council.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2013.