Govt silent on medicine scam probe

SHILLONG: The State Government is yet to come clear on dumping of Rs 4. 25 crore worth expired medicines procured under NRHM early part of this year.
After the matter was reported, on February 12, the Health Minister AL Hek had given one month time for a fact finding team to probe the scam.
Later in the middle of April, the probe panel headed by K.W. Marbaniang, Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Department, sought one  more month for the completion of the probe, but the outcome of the inquiry is yet to be known.
Irked over the lack of transparency on the matter, the executive committee of the BJP on Saturday said that the state government has failed to give any reason for the dumping of medicines. “The health scenario in the state is most unpleasant. The people especially in the  rural areas can hardly see any doctors in CHCs or PHCs and they rarely  get medicines from  CHCs and  PHCs, but the Governments has dumped  expired medicines worth Rs 4. 25 crore in plastic bags to the jungle”, the meeting of BJP said.