Following controversy, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a probe into the transfer of doctors in the Health department after Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak, who also holds the health portfolio, raised questions over the transfers carried out by the ACS, Health.
Yogi took cognisance of the alleged transfer scam in the Health department and the probe would be carried out by a 3-member committee headed by Chief Secretary Durga Shankar Mishra. Other members of the committee are ACS (Home) Awanish Kumar Awasthi and ACS (Sugarcane) Sanjay Bhoosreddy.
The enquiry committee has been asked to submit the report to the chief minister within two days.
“After the serious discrepancies came to the fore in the investigation following a letter written by Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak on the transfers made by ACS (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad, the CM has summoned the report,” a senior official said.
After a series of transfers being carried out in the Health department, Pathak questioned the move and wrote a letter to ACS (Health) Amit Mohan. He also sought the report that he had asked for after he unearthed expired medicines from the godown of Uttar Pradesh Medicine Supply Corporation. However, Amit Mohan said that everything was done according to rules.
On May 20, Pathak had conducted a surprise raid at a godown of Uttar Pradesh Medicine Supply Corporation and recovered expired medicines worth more than Rs 16 crore. Dressed in plain clothes, the minister, along with a department official, an IAS officer, raided the godown in Lucknow.
The Medical Corporation had not supplied medicines to hospitals, and it left the minister infuriated. The stock of medicines piled up at the godown had expired, prompting the minister to order an investigation into the matter. A few officers were also found absent and the minister had said that every penny would be recovered from those found guilty. The minister had also got the raid videographed.
He had instructed the officials concerned to submit a detailed report within three days and was upset about the fact that people’s money was being wasted. The report is still awaited though.