Top News Of The Day: Another AAP vs BJP Showdown In Delhi Over Mohalla Clinic Scam

Mohalla clinics that have been central to the Aam Aadmi Party's welfare model are under the scanner. Delhi LG VK Saxena has sought a CBI investigation into an alleged scam involving fake lab tests and fake patients at the Delhi government-run Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clinics and referred the matter to the agency. What has emerged is that lakhs of fake pathology and radiology tests were allegedly conducted on non-existent patients at the Mohalla Clinics and payments were made to private labs in the name of referrals as part of the alleged scam. Now the LG’s office has claimed the scam runs into hundreds of crores of rupees, at the cost of the poorest of the poor in Delhi. This was an inquiry that was conducted by the vigilance and state health departments at the Mohalla Clinics to look into the lab investigations that were being outsourced to private diagnostic companies.