{"id":18559,"date":"2024-04-15T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=18559"},"modified":"2024-04-15T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:48:09","slug":"parliamentary-public-accounts-committee-pac-calls-for-investigation-into-unaccounted-drugs-and-medical-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/parliamentary-public-accounts-committee-pac-calls-for-investigation-into-unaccounted-drugs-and-medical-supplies\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Calls for Investigation into Unaccounted Drugs and Medical Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Samuel Sukhnandan and Saskia Warrick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) resumed its examination of the 2019 Auditor General&#8217;s report on Monday, focusing on concerning discrepancies regarding millions of unaccounted drugs and medical supplies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session saw members advocating for a thorough investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the previous APNU\/AFC government in 2019, the Region Two administration reportedly received approximately $98 million worth of drugs and medical supplies, despite having paid for supplies totaling $210 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Auditor General&#8217;s report indicated that the entire sum had been expended, a subsequent statement of reconciliation in 2020 revealed that only $98.594 million worth of deliveries were recorded, with no mention of the remaining balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Region Two REO, Dennis Jaikarran, acknowledged efforts to address this discrepancy, including consultations with the Ministry of Health for reconciliation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the missing drugs were never received, raising concerns about accountability and transparency in the procurement process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAC member Minister Gail Teixeira called for a special investigation into the matter, emphasizing that similar issues had occurred in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She proposed convening a meeting involving the Auditor General, Financial Secretary, Ministry of Health, and relevant regional authorities to conduct a comprehensive investigation, suggesting that the Auditor General may need to spearhead a special inquiry into affected regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This call for investigation comes amidst several financial breaches flagged by the PAC during its examination of the Auditor General&#8217;s report for the period under review, underscoring the need for accountability and oversight in the management of public funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Sukhnandan and Saskia Warrick The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) resumed its examination of the 2019 Auditor General&#8217;s report on Monday, focusing on concerning discrepancies regarding millions of unaccounted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18560,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18559\/revisions\/18560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}