PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, May 13: There is no impact of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on the operations of the Pulse Super Speciality Hospital situated at Bariatu in Ranchi.
It was experienced after a short visit to the Pulse Hospital, situated near Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, this afternoon between 1 pm to 1.30 pm, where the waiting area of the hospital was full of patients and attendants.
It was also observed that the parking area was full of vehicles and the hospital was functioning as on the normal days. All the posts in the hospital were filled by hospital personnel including the cash counter, counselling counter and guards.
An attendant who admitted his father ten days ago for the treatment of paralysis said, “People said to me that the hospital will be shut down so you should move your patient to the other hospital, but I didn’t find any lack of service from the hospital side. Even now, patients are getting admitted to the hospital for treatment. Moreover, you can see that the waiting area is full of patients for getting diagnosed by doctors.”
When contacted Madhu Gupta, Co-ordinator of the Pulse Hospital, she said that every news circulating in the market is just a rumour. “We are treating the admitted patients as it was going on earlier and we are also taking admission of the patients coming to the hospital for treatment,” she added.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Sunday summoned Abhishek Jha, managing director of Pulse Super Speciality Hospital and husband of IAS and secretary of mining and industry departments, Pooja Singhal for questioning in the money laundering case.
The ED doubts that Abhishek Jha has concealed actual amounts spent in the construction of the hospital and that a huge slush amount was infused into this health infrastructure.
The ED is learned to have procured relevant documents in this regard that suggests that he apparently did an under assessment of the cost of the construction of the hospital. The ED further quizzed whether Pooja Singhal has any involvement in the management of the hospital, both directly or indirectly.
The ED is learned to have confronted him with details of several companies with which he is directly or indirectly associated. These companies are suspected to be shell companies.
Notably, on Saturday, the ED arrested chartered accountant Suman Singh who is said to be the CA of Abhishek Jha. The ED recovered Rs 19.31 Crore cash from the residence of Suman Singh. The ED asked whether or not the cash belonged to him.
