Srinagar, July 14 -- The SK Institute of Medical Sciences Soura here has come under the scanner of the Jammu and Kashmir government for the allegedly shady deal worth millions for procurement of a testing machine for the Covid19.
Sources said around three months ago, the SKIMS purchased a testing machine called RNA-Extractor worth millions that is used to test Covid samples from a dealer without tendering.
Sources said the Raj Bhawan has come to know that the machine was procured without the re-agents or chemicals that are needed for running the machine to do tests.
"This machine cannot run without reagents and thus it was sheer misuse of public money," said a senior official.
Sources said the government has got inputs that the machine ...