CAG REPORT

Audit assessed availability of drugs and equipments listed in IPHS norms. There was shortage of essential drugs and recruitment in all test checked health institutions and there was wide variation in availability across same type of institutions. One of the reasons for the shortage was non supply, short supply, and delay in supply of drugs in the warehouses and health institutions and delay in processing of the 

indents. 

         There were many issues in the procurement at Haryana Medical  Services Corporation Limited (HMSCL) including purchase of medicines from blacklisted firm, internal control weakness in drug procurement portal, which allowed receipt at Warehouse prior to the date of dispatch entered by the suppliers,not blacklisting the firms which were repeatedly supplying the sub standard drugs, not transferring the interest on advances taken by HMSCL , etc. There were also issues of quality control as there were delays in testing of drugs , not sending drugs for test , not codifying drugs and distributing drugs which were declared Not of Standard Quality. For local purchase , system of sample testing was not enforced .