LAHORE, Nov 02 (APP): The Anti-Corruption Establishment Punjab on Wednesday registered a case against 12 persons in their alleged attempt to incur a loss of Rs.800 million to the national exchequer by violating the para rules of Mayo Hospital.
A case has been registered in the mega corruption scandal against 12 doctors including a Professor named Prof. Dr. Ahmed Aziz Qureshi, Deputy Director Drugs Sheikh Altaf, Pharmacist Atique Munawar, Khalid Mahmood and others.
According to the Anti-Corruption Establishment, the contract of procurement tender for buying surgical and disposable items had been given illegally to the four companies at the behest of former storekeeper Shakil while rejecting the applications of 41 companies out of 61 companies on technical grounds and issued supply order to the four companies.
About 2000 items of surgical, disposable and medical amounting to Rs one billion and 350 million were to be bought. The Mayo Hospital administration bought only 21 items from a huge sum of Rs.100 million and the items were allegedly bought at 100 percent higher price from the market commodity rate.
Anti-Corruption Establishment timely conducted a raid and stopped the payment of additional Rs. 800 million from being made.
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