NHM
maintains secrecy on Management of
Ambulance Service in Odisha
A High-level
Inquiry is required into secret deal
between officials of NHM and
Ziqitza Health Care limited
Dear friends
In view of widespread allegation
by the people in different
districts and employees’ Union of Ambulance
Service ( 108 and 102) against Ziqitza Health Care
limited about corruption
and mismanagement in Ambulance service (
Non-functional of Ambulances,
shortage of staff , false Bill etc.) with
support from officials of NHM, Odisha, RTI Application dt.10.2.20
was filed in the office of
National Health Mission, Odisha
seeking some information
including the
following important information.
·
Provide
list of pharmacists
engaged in Ambulance 108 and 102
who are working and left
along with their
qualification, monthly honorarium
which was paid each of them.
( district-wise).
·
Provide details of various posts lying vacant for
Ambulance 108 and 102 ( district-wise
and post-wise).
·
Provide
name of Monitoring
Officer who have been engaged by Govt. to monitor this
work in different years . provide date
of submission of monitoring report, if any submitted
by them and copy of Monitoring
Report.
The PIO has denied
to provide the information on the ground
of section 8 (1)(j) of the RTI Act ,
non-availability of information
and with ill-motive to keep
information secret.
As per available
information in public domain, NHM, Odisha , an implementing agency of Govt. of Odisha has entered
into an agreement with Ziqitza
Health Care limited
to run and manage Odisha Emergency Medical Ambulance Services ( 512 EMAS)
and Referral transport Services
( 500 Janani Express) in all 30
districts. NHM is the monitoring
agency to monitor ambulance and see in order
to provide best health service to the
people. The Company Ziqitza
Health Care limited
is accountable to NHM,
Odisha for all its
activities as per agreement. As
the Chief Minister speaks
of 5T and Mo Sarkar, all the
information about Ambulance service
must be put in public
domain for greater
transparency in the implementation of this
project. The Company is duty-bound
to provide all the
information as and when
required by NHM, Odisha. As
per information supplied by the office of NHM, Odisha, a dedicated Cell
is functioning under supervision
of Mission Director, NHM, Odisha to
monitor Ambulance service work.
But when the information about list
of Pharmacists engaged
in Ambulance -108 and 102 is
sought, the office of NHM, Odisha denied
to supply the said information
under section 8 (1) (j) of the RTI Act on the
ground of personal information.
It is astonishing how
name of the employees are personal
information. In the website of
Govt. of Odisha, we found name
of the Ministers , officers and
employees with their
contact no. are
web-hosted. When the name of Chief Minister, Ministers, officers and
employees including peon
and Chouwkidar is in public domain, how name of mere
pharmacists can not
be disclosed by NHM, Odisha. This
information is required to be
voluntarily disclosed under section 4 (1) (b) of the RTI Act.
On another query
about details of various posts
lying vacant for ambulance
service, the PIO, office
of NHM, Odisha has said that the said
information is not available. It
is highly astonishing how a Monitoring Authority with
a dedicated Cell does not
know about vacancy
of different posts. What
type of monitoring these
officers are doing. If the
said information is not
available, they must ask the Company
to provide the same as matter of transparency. Simply denying
information under RTI Act
due to non-availability is crime . It is established that the
allegation made by the Employees’ Union about
huge vacancy in the post
of Pharmacist and other
employees which has brought
disaster in Ambulance service is found true
and based on fact. The
officers of NHM, Odisha are
hand in glove with the
Company which is looting us.
A High-level inquiry is to
be conducted to
investigate the functioning
and management of Ambulance
Service and nexus of officials of NHM, Odisha and Ziqitza
Health Care limited. The Ambulance service
are seen mismanaged , the employees are denied
proper remuneration. Many of them
are retrenched and the
Company is looting public money
bringing disaster in health
service.
I present herewith
number of ambulances engaged in different
districts to monitor whether
such number of ambulance is really
operating or not.
Sl. No.
|
District
|
Total No. of EMAS Ambulance
|
Total No. of Referral
transport Service ( Janani Express)
|
1
|
Angul
|
17
|
16
|
2
|
Balasore
|
27
|
29
|
3
|
Baragarh
|
18
|
15
|
4
|
Bhadrak
|
18
|
19
|
5
|
Bolangir
|
22
|
17
|
6
|
Boudh
|
8
|
5
|
7
|
Cuttack
|
26
|
33
|
8
|
Deogarh
|
4
|
3
|
9
|
Dhenkanal
|
15
|
15
|
10
|
Gajapati
|
7
|
6
|
11
|
Ganjam
|
35
|
44
|
12
|
Jagatsingh Pur
|
11
|
12
|
13
|
Jajpur
|
19
|
23
|
14
|
Jharsuguda
|
6
|
6
|
15
|
Kalahandi
|
21
|
17
|
16
|
Kandhamal
|
12
|
8
|
17
|
Kendrapara
|
15
|
15
|
18
|
Keonjhar
|
24
|
23
|
19
|
Khurda
|
23
|
28
|
20
|
Koraput
|
19
|
18
|
21
|
Malakangiri
|
10
|
8
|
22
|
Mayurbhanj
|
34
|
32
|
23
|
Nawarangpur
|
15
|
13
|
24
|
Nayagarh
|
13
|
10
|
25
|
Nuapara
|
9
|
7
|
26
|
Puri
|
20
|
21
|
27
|
Rayagada
|
15
|
12
|
28
|
Sambalpur
|
15
|
13
|
29
|
Sonepur
|
8
|
6
|
30
|
Sundargarh
|
26
|
26
|
|
Total
|
512
|
500
|
Details of Amount Released
to Ziqitza Health Care
limited from January 2014 to December 2019
Period
|
Amount Released ( Rs. )
EMAS
|
Amount Released ( Rs. )
Referral transport
|
January to March , 2014
|
11, 98,18,493.00
|
NIL
|
2014-15
|
54,55,50,570.00
|
7,37,70,825.00
|
2015-16
|
59,38,26,458.00
|
27,12,87,226.00
|
2016-17
|
61,19,28,140.00
|
40,68,12,233.00
|
2017-18
|
66,12,70,664.27
|
38,38,51,603.00
|
2018-19
|
72,81,51,104.57
|
31,65,88,962.00
|
2019-20 ( April 2019 to dec. 2019)
|
67,86,45,361.00
|
23,07,65,852.00
|
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date- 24.3.20
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