Performance Audit of Functioning of Medical Department in Arunachal Pradesh (1995-2000)

Abstract

The performance review of functioning of Medical Department in Arunachal Pradesh, interalia, highlights defective budgeting, irregular deployment as well as utilisation of available manpower, thereby depriving a section of population of the state to avail the benefit of health care services, irrational deployment of Specialist and Dental Surgeons, establishment and running of 2 PHCs and 68 HSCs either with one Group ‘D’ staff or having no staff at all, extra avoidable expenditure of Rs.47.21 lakh for procurement of medicine at higher rates, procurement of X-Ray Machines before completion of infrastructure and absence of any system to monitor and evaluate the working of the Department as a whole