Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Federal Government Services Hospital (Polyclinic Hospital) incumbent management has been caught red handed by awarding oxygen supply contract on daily basis to a black listed company allegedly causing massive financial loss to national exchequer.

A well placed source confided to Daily Times that the hospital management also awarded contract of Nitrous gas supply to a company that is being already prosecuted in the apex court over corruption charges.

The source told this scribe that hospital management has allegedly awarded a contract to Linde Firm which is subsidiary of BDC which was blacklisted by the government owing to its indulgence in corruption and providing sub-standard medical gases to different hospitals.

Secretary CADD Hassan Iqbal told Daily Times that government has already directed hospital management to refrain from awarding contract to blacklisted company or those companies which are facing corruption charges in the court.

Hassan Iqbal said CADD Ministry would look into the matter and action would be taken against the people responsible for any corrupt practice.

The documents which are also available with this scribe described that the company named Business Developer Company (BDC), which was awarded contract to supply Nitrous gas, but a corruption case is pending against it in the Supreme Court of Pakistan for the last many months as the notice to its management had been issued.

Business Developer Company was alleged in the petition that its management had supplied Nitrous gas on inflated rates that were two third higher from the open market rates and caused massive loss to national kitty.

In the case the previous administration of Polyclinic hospital was also implicated.The company has provided 22000 gas cylinders for three years with the connivance of then hospital management and FIA was assigned the task by the court to look into this issue and to collect evidence of the company’s corruption.

FIA has now recorded the statements of Joint Executive Director of Polyclinic Hospital Dr Iftikhar Naro, Deputy Executive Director Dr Shahid Hanif in this matter and also directed the chief executive of Business Developer Company to provide all relevant record of its transaction, details of its tax returns and taxes, which it paid to the government.

FIA also has directed policlinic hospital management to provide the record of the last three years transactions of purchase of medicines and medical gases besides the details of its agreement with the company in question, the sources disclosed.

The source told this scribe that the management of the hospital also awarded a gas supply contract to the company without calling open tender. As a matter of fact Lende and Business Developer Company are sister organizations, owned by the same proprietor.

Daily Times approached I. U. Baig Executive Director of the hospital and sought his view over the award of the contract to blacklisted and corruption stricken companies without calling open tender, he said that hospital neither awarded any contract to blacklisted company nor Business Developer Company is supplying any sort of gas to hospital.