Delhi’s Mohalla Clinics are newest to face corruption allegations
New Delhi:
The Delhi Lieutenant Governor has requested the CBI to research corruption allegations in diagnostic exams carried out at Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics, sources have stated.
The Mohalla Clinics allegedly ran faux radiology and pathology exams with none sufferers, sources stated.
Delhi Well being Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj had additionally flagged the matter on September 20, following which seven docs posted at Mohalla Clinics had been eliminated. Some docs would come to the clinics very late and nonetheless mark full attendance, whereas others would bunk the entire day.
The Delhi authorities is prone to take away the well being secretary, sources stated.
Simply days in the past, Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had ordered one other probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into alleged provide of substandard medicines to Delhi authorities hospitals.
Within the Mohalla Clinic case, preliminary investigation discovered that docs who had not been coming to the clinics had been marked as current. The clinics continued to prescribe diagnostic exams for sufferers who didn’t exist, sources stated.
The Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinic infrastructure was conceptualised as a mechanism to offer main healthcare accessible to communities in Delhi at their doorstep.
These hyperlocal clinics cater to the wants of not solely the inhabitants of Delhi but in addition migratory and floating inhabitants from neighbouring states, which makes for a substantial affected person load. There are additionally many areas, significantly slums, the place the poor don’t get simply get main healthcare.