LUCKNOW, June 9 -- Alleged irregularities have come to light in the medicine procurement network of King George's Medical University (KGMU), where a defunct government software has left 25 drug outlets handling over 11,500 products with no digital oversight. The irregularities relate to the functioning of the Hospital Revolving Fund (HRF), which oversees procurement and supply of medicines, implants and consumables across the university's hospitals.

At the heart is the absence of a functional Hospital Information System (HIS), which should provide real-time digital monitoring of inventory movement, stock reconciliation and transaction tracking across the network.

Recently, scrutiny of records allegedly revealed repeated procurement of e...