Pakistan, Feb. 17 -- Rs 66 million worth of machinery, medicines, and surgical equipment is purchased without following the declared procedure and fulfilling legal requirements in the Health Department Punjab.
According to information shared by the Public Accounts Committee, in 2020-21, during the tenure of Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, a huge amount of life-saving drugs, medicines related to blood pressure and diabetes control, blood thinner medicines, antibiotics, glucose, and instruments for heart and kidney surgery were purchased without the required tenders.
Moreover, no declared rules were followed during the purchasing of medicines and surgical instruments for all government hospitals in the whole of Punjab. In two years (2020-21), ...