An article “AGP detects Rs 1 Bn irregularities in Ayub Teaching Hospital” by Arshad Aziz Malik was published in “The News” newspaper dated 12 Mar 2022 without hearing the hospital point of view. It is a biased opinion of the writer with a purpose to defame the institution and impede the extensive developmental work under progress at ATH. An effort has been made to create an aura of distrust and to dent the confidence of all those striving to improve the standard of health care delivery within the available resources.
Needless to emphasize that the allegations leveled at the hospital in the said article are preliminary observations of the audit team without having heard the hospital point of view. Hospital replies will be put up and discussed in the Departmental Accounts Committee (DAC) meeting with the audit team shortly and only paras that will remain unsettled will be forwarded to PAC. Therefore, drawing such an inference prior DAC clearly reflects ignorance of the facts and mala fide intentions of the writer
None of the ATH accounts are illegal and all of them have undergone extensive AGP audit in previous years and no audit observations were made about any of these accounts. Similarly all the procurements were made following the rules and regulations, which is the best utilization of the national exchequer and resulted in to provision of better health care facilities to the common people of the region
Ayub Teaching Hospital strongly rebut these allegations which are contrary to the facts and a detail reply will be soon made public.