Saturday 24th Jan, 2026
Srinagar: Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that the Comptroller and Audit General (CAG) of India’s report vindicated our stand that substandard drugs were used in the health institutions of JK.
President DAK Dr Nisar ul Hassan in a statement said the report validates our stand that substandard drugs were given to patients in hospitals.
According to CAG report 50.95 lakh substandard tablets, capsules and injections had been administered to patients.
The report says none of the hospitals were checking the potency of drugs and they were ignoring the reports of drug tests.
“It is official now that substandard drugs were supplied to JK hospitals in connivance with health officials”.
“That was what we have been saying”.
DAK unearthed spurious drug scandal in 2013 when in a shocking revelation 2.65 lakh tablets of a fake drug “maximizin” were issued by various government hospitals to patients, out of which 2.3 lakh tablets were consumed.
It was revealed how analytic report of this drug was brushed under the carpet and the drug continued its use in hospitals even after it was declared fake, the Dak said.
Adding, despite documentary evidence against some powerful and mighty, they are roaming free. “It is ironical that health officials, against whom cases are pending in courts, have been given plump posts.
There was a deep-rooted nexus between drug mafia and health officials that pumped huge quantities of spurious drugs in the state,” the DAK stated.
It said the CAG report also says that hospital equipments worth crores had been procured by health institutions by issuing fake and forged supply orders.
“There were ample evidences against health officials for their involvement in purchase scams, but they enjoy impunity. Some elements are shielding the wrongdoings of those involved and this conspiracy of covering up has introduced criminality into medicine,” Dr Nisar said.