KIMS of
Achyut Samant , BJD MP received Rs. 24 crores for operation of
exclusive COVID Hospital
Dear
friends
When the news
about tripartite agreement
signed among KIMS, Bhubaneswar, OMC, Bhubaneswar and
Got. of Odisha for establishment of COVID Hospital in Bhubaneswar by KIMS ( Kalinga Institute of Medical Science, Patia which
has got leased
land of 27 acres from Govt.
and illegally acquired many
more ), we , the RTI
Activists demanded before
the Govt. public disclosure of
copy of agreement and amount
sanctioned to KIMS. But
astonishingly, a self-claimed
transparent Govt.( ?) could not
provide any information.
At last RTI Application dt. 5.5.20 was submitted to the PIO, office of Odisha Mining Corporation seeking
information about details of funding
support made by OMC , Bhubaneswar
to different organizations to deal with COVID 19
and its purpose with date of sanction. On 26.6.20, the PIO supplied the
following information.
|
Name
of the district
|
Sanctioned in favour of
|
Amount
in Rs./ Lakh
|
Purpose of Sanction
|
Date
of Sanction
|
|
Khorda
|
KIMS,
BBSR
|
1235.26
|
Establishment
and operation of exclusive
COVID Hospital with
support from OMC
|
31.3.20
|
|
Kondhamal
|
DO
|
346.50
|
9.4.20
|
|
|
Bolangir
|
DO
|
400.00
|
9.4.20
|
|
|
Mayurbhanj
|
DO
|
400.00
|
13.4.20
|
|
|
Cuttack
|
ASHWINI
Hospital, Cuttack
|
165.00
|
9.4.20
|
|
|
Dhenkanal
|
CDMO
&PHO, Dhenkanal
|
100.00
|
20.4.20
|
|
|
Puri
|
CDMO
&PHO, Puri
|
200.00
|
15.4.20
|
|
|
Kalahandi
|
CDMO
&PHO, Puri
|
400.00
|
15.4.20
|
|
|
Sundaragarh
|
RM,
Koira OMC Ltd.
|
1.65
|
Distribution
of ration ( dry food) to families
in distress in and around OMC
periphery villages during period of COVID lockdown
|
28.4.2020
|
|
Keonjhar
|
RM,
Barbil OMC Ltd.
|
4.82
|
28.4.20
|
|
|
Keonjhar
|
RM,
Gandhamardhan OMC Ltd.
|
1.98
|
28.4.20
|
|
|
Jajpur
|
RM,
JK Road OMC Ltd.
|
1.92
|
28.4.20
|
|
|
BDO,
Sukinda RM, JK Road OMC Ltd.
|
13.15
|
Providing
Medical Kits and safe guard against
COVID 19
|
7.4.20
|
|
|
Khorda
|
MP
Old age Home at Baliapata, Rasulgarh, Bhubaneswar
|
3.90
|
To
meet daily needs like food, medicine, health check up of old age inmates during COVID Lockdown
|
28.4.20
|
Analysis
A.
COVID has
been disaster for
crores of people
who have lost their life and livelihood, employment etc.
But at the same
time, COVID has been
opportune for huge
profitable business for private
players like KIMS.
B.
It was
expected that the
State Govt. will use
this opportunity ( COVID )
to revive and strengthen its
disastrous health system
by modernizing through
investment. But astonishingly, the
Govt. preferred to strengthen private hospitals
utilizing public money at the
cost of Govt. health system.
C.
Now while the
Govt. health system will
deteriorate more and more , the private hospitals will
gain heavily which will have
negate impact on over all public health
system in the state.
D.
Without any single
investment by its own, KIMS got sanction of opening its own hospital and developing its own infrastructure in four districts.
E.
It is irony that Public
money ( State Fund) is used to strengthen private hospitals by destroying Govt. hospitals and Govt. health system.
F.
After few
years, the common man will survive at
the mercy of private
hospitals.
G.
As the Govt. maintains utmost
secrecy in respect of
treatment of COVID patients , expenditure, details of payments
in COVID hospital managed
by private hospitals
like KIMS and there is no transparency
in the management of COID
Hospitals, it will no doubt provide huge profit to private hospitals.
Pradip Pradhan
M-9937843482
Date-4.7.20
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