PAC reviewed the 2022 audit audit report on “Public Procurement and Drugs in CGHS”. File | Photo Credit: Hind
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), headed by the leader of the KC Venugopal Congress, pulled out the headquarters of the Health System (CGHS) for ignoring the repeated recommendations of the panel to take different steps to improve its services, including a regular revision of drug award policy.
The sources said that the Minister of Health of the Punya Salil Srivastava said the panel that the government is taking place in the process of revision of the list of rates for different treatments and adapts to the current level of inflation. Several empaneous hospitals pulled out of the system due to low rates of sanctioned CGHS for various medical procedures.
This program started in 1954 in order to provide comprehensive medical care to employees of the Central Government, serving and pensioners, their dependent family members and other categories of CGHS card holders, as the government announced.
PAC reviewed the 2022 audit audit report on “Public Procurement and Drugs in CGHS”. The report pointed out that the ministry did not ensure that the drug form was regularly revised, and as a result CGH could not buy new drugs.
Bids for price agreements for drugs listed in the formulation were not processed effectively and in time by organizing medical stores. In the absence of a medicine rate, CGHS could not obtain medicines in the formula. Administrator and General Auditor (CAG) recommended that formulating the drug be revised on a half -year basis.
PAC chairman, Mr. Venugopal, asked why the Ministry of Health of the Union ignored the repeated instructions from the panel on this matter. At Tuesday’s meeting, members raised concerns about the supply of outdated drugs to recipients, delay in settlement of claims and there was no need to cover the latest medical procedures within this system. It was emphasized that drugs were revised after a seven -year gap in 2022 and ignoring the recommendations of CAG has not been revised in the last three years.
Members have also worried that the drugs needed for time critical treatment, including cancer, are often not available. Medicines supplied by CGHS recipients were often valid after the date of expiry. MEPs who are enrolled in CGHS also marked an unusual delay in cleaning the reimbursement requirements. “While the official attitude is that the demands are resolved within 60 days, we have often seen each other that in some cases it lasts up to three to five years,” the member said.
According to sources, the Minister of Health of the Union also stated that the government in the process of upgrading policies regulating medical procedures and expansion is to the extent and scope.
Published – June 24, 2025 21:58
