Complaint against Lok Nayak medical director, 4 other doctors over ‘change’ made in tender floated to hire nursing orderlies

Reached for a comment, Dr Chaudhary told The Indian Express in a WhatsApp message: “It’s false. No such tender happened.”

The ACB has now sought certified copies of files pertaining to the tender and copies of the file pertaining to the work contract agreement for the nursing orderlies, officials said.

These tenders are floated on GeM portal — India’s national public procurement platform and a digital marketplace for government bodies, including ministries, PSUs — for the purchase of common goods and services directly from registered sellers, fostering transparency, efficiency, and inclusivity in public purchasing.

Meanwhile, sources said that an internal meeting was conducted at Lok Nayak on January 7 to enquire into the “circumstances under which the category of nursing orderlies was changed from unskilled to semi-skilled in the tender, leading to failure of the process and wastage of time and manpower”.

In Delhi government hospitals, nursing orderlies are support staff who assist nurses and doctors with basic patient care, hygiene, transporting patients, preparing them for procedures, and managing supplies, essentially acting as crucial hands-on helpers for daily ward operations, covering tasks from patient admission/discharge to feeding and bed-making.