NGPC supplied $3.4B in drugs to ministry, GPHC in 2011

New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (NGPC) supplied $3.4B worth of drugs to the Ministry of Health and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) – 80% of the combined needs of the two entities in 2011.

The 2011 report of the Auditor General on the Public Accounts of Guyana provided a breakdown of the allocations. In respect of GPHC, NGPC supplied $1.2B of its $1.6B requirements. The next highest supplier was