Shyam Sood
Rajouri, Dec 8: In a weird development here in the Rajouri district, employees of a health sub-center at Azmatabad in Darhal Health Block had shifted the property (items/machines) to the private residence of a junior pharmacist and the senior concerned officers reportedly were not aware of this development.
The matter came to light when these items were damaged in the fire at the house of Shabir Ahmed, junior pharmacist recently and Block Medical Officer (BMO) vide her office letter dt 2/12/21 brought the matter into the notice of the Chief Medical Officer.
More shocking is, according to BMO, the building of the health center was declared unsafe (sometimes ago) and the CMO was not informed about this.
As per reports Shabir Ahmed was reportedly operating the machines at his residence besides other routine work of the health sub-center, including attending the patients.
Whether the BMO Darhal was aware or not–about the unsafe building and shifting of property of health sub-center to the residence of Junior Pharmacist–is a matter of departmental inquiry.
However, BMO Darhal vide her office letter No.BMO/D/2021-22/730 dt 2/12/2021 has informed the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) about the loss of the property of the health center at the residence of a junior pharmacist.
Dr. Shamim Un Nisa, CMO has taken the matter seriously and vide her office letter dt 3/12/2021 has directed the BMO to provide the details when the building of sub-center was declared unsafe and the certificate issued by the concerned agency.
CMO has sought an explanation from the BMO about the reasons for issuing dead stock items to the sub-center if the building was declared unsafe.
CMO also sought BMO’s explanation about the reason for shifting government items to private residence & not to the block HQ store or the nearest government hospital building if the sub-center building was declared unsafe.
“Submit the reply to this office with your definite remarks along with comments/report, so that the matter could be taken up with the higher authorities” reads the CMO letter.
“The matter is under investigation. More details would be available only after BMO’s reply,” said CMO.
