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A corruption scandal has surfaced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (Okay-P) Health Department concerning the procurement of medical gloves, involving hundreds of thousands of rupees.
According to official paperwork, gloves recorded in authorities inventories are lacking from the District Health Officer (DHO) shops.
The paperwork reveal that gloves value Rs280 million had been bought for Bajaur and North Waziristan in February and March, with a complete price amounting to Rs638.3 million.
The directorate common of well being companies made funds for these gloves, together with Rs135.6 million for six million gloves for the district well being workplace in Peshawar.
However, the storekeeper on the DHO Peshawar claims no inventory of gloves was acquired.
Additionally, gloves value Rs67.8 million had been reportedly bought for Bajaur underneath the Top-Up Programme, however 3 million gloves are lacking from the DHO Bajaur’s information.
Similarly, Rs434.8 million value of gloves had been bought for the DHO North Waziristan, with 19 million gloves unaccounted for.
Health Minister Qasim Ali Shah acknowledged {that a} mega inquiry has been launched into the matter, vowing to reveal any corruption that occurred throughout the caretaker authorities’s tenure.
Last week, Okay-P Minister for Works and Communications, Shakeel Ahmed Khan, resigned from his submit, citing “deep-rooted corruption” inside the provincial authorities.
Ahmed, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA), submitted his resignation to Chief Minister (CM) Ali Amin Gandapur, expressing frustration with the administration’s widespread mismanagement.
In his resignation letter, the minister emphasised his lack of ability to tolerate the continuing corruption, stating he was compelled to step down.
He additionally introduced his intention to reveal the total causes behind his resignation throughout the upcoming KP Assembly session.
Ahmed had beforehand accused the chief minister of interfering in his ministry, which, he claimed, severely hampered his means to work successfully because of the rampant corruption.
