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Carnival of graft in time of Covid
Widespread scams plague health ministry
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
Even when the nation was facing a grave situation amid the Covid-19 outbreak, systemic corruption raged in the health ministry.
Instead of putting up all-out efforts to tackle the outbreak and improve crippled public health services, a section of ministry officials has been embroiled in scams since the pandemic hit the country in March last year.
The custodian of the health sector hogged the headlines time and again for all the wrong reasons anomalies in purchasing N95 masks, issuing of fake Covid test certificates, mismanagement in hospitals, amassing huge illegal wealth by a DGHS driver, or scams in recruitment of medical technologists.
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