Fund Received and Spent for COVID Hospital in Kendrapara district

 

Fund Received and Spent for COVID Hospital in Kendrapara district

65% of  total fund  for management of COVID Hospital, Kendrapara spent for only  fooding of doctors, Paramedical staff and other staff , exposed  under RTI

To access information relating to COVID Hospital management   and expenses made for it is herculean task for RTI Activists in the state of Odisha. This information are neither proactively disclosed by the Govt. nor provided information under RTI within stipulated time period. In almost all RTI Application cases, the PIOs provided information after filling first and second appeal or complaints to the Information Commission.  The PIOs deliberately made long delay  in providing information about COVID management or denied  information on flimsy ground. Information about   Decision  taken at Govt. level to daily  declaration of  death , recovery of COVID patients or admission of patients in Hospital  is still mystery , Despite  several RTI Applications filed within six months, not  a single  information has been shared  by any Dept. .

 

Prakash Ch. Das, young energetic new RTI Apprentice ( M- 9937008937)  had  filed RTI Application dt. 7.8.20 to the PIO, office of Collector, Kendrapara seeking information about functioning of COVID-19 Hospital, details of Isolation centres and  quarantine centres in the Kendrapara district.  

 

After 3 months , on 5.11.20.,  the PIO, office  of  CDM &PHO, Kendrapara has  provided only total allocation of  fund  for COVID Hospital/ Isolation Centre  and   expenses made  under  different heads. These  are as follows.

                                                                                                                                    ( In Rs. )

Total  fund allocated from Collector, Kendrapara	1,50,64,111.00
Total expenses made by CDM&PHO, Kendrapara	1,50,64,111.00
Head-wise  expenses	Amount
Fooding cost  of doctors/ paramedical staff and other staff engaged  in COVID Hospital/Isolation centre	Rs. 77,51,380.00
Accommodation and Fooding  cost of doctors  from SUM Hospital , Bhubaneswar  who were working at COVID Hospital, Kendrapara	Rs. 15,21,140.00
Working lunch cost of Call Centre staff	5,80,010.00
Total Fooding cost	98,52,530.00
POL	16,33,918.00
Cost of Mask, Sanitiser, PPE, Bedsheet	11,19,343.00
Salary of staff ( Security, Clinic, Help desk)	17,11,320.00
DA to Call Centre Staff	4,26,200.00
Incentive to Health Personnel	3,20,800.00
Total	1,50,64,111,00

Details of  infrastructure  expenses  of COVID Hospital, Isolation centre and quarantine centres  established  across the  district  has not yet been supplied  by the district administration.

Pradip Pradhan

M-9937843482

Date- 14.11.20