Goolsarran decries method of drug procurement by gov’t

Former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran says that the Government’s reliance on a Cabinet decision of 2003 for prequalification of a major pharmaceutical company for supply of medical drugs at the expense of other suppliers is not consistent with the Procurement Act of 2003’s criteria and methodology for prequalification.

He wrote about the subject in a column in the Stabroek News on January 28 after a series of public comments in the press and elsewhere about the propriety of Government’s prequalification of medical drugs from New GPC Inc,