Chandigarh, July 4 -- The investigation into the fraudulent diversion of over Rs.1.14 crore from PGIMER's Private Grant Cell, meant for needy patients, has revealed that the bulk of the funds - Rs.88.12 lakh - were transferred to pharmaceutical vendors for medicines requisition without any doctor's prescription slips.

These transactions were made for 75 patients who had not even requested reimbursements, reveals the Prof Arun Kumar Aggarwal committee report, which investigated misappropriation of funds in the Private Grant Cell.

The funds were meant to cover treatment under government schemes, but the necessary prescriptions, which are a mandatory requirement for releasing such payments, were missing.

According to the report, these irr...