New GPC criticizes Auditor General’s report

New GPC’s storage facility at Ruimveldt, Georgetown showing air conditioned systems and loading docks (New GPC photo)

Pharmaceuticals supplier, the New GPC Inc. has criticized aspects of the 2012 Auditor-General’s report as erroneous and said sloppy word was done by the Audit Office after the report highlighted multi-million deficiencies in the procurement and supply of products from the company.

The New GPC Inc. has been awarded the bulk of contracts worth billions of dollars to supply drugs to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and the Ministry of Health (MOH). Shorter bank guarantees than stipulated under the law and sloth in delivery were among the issues highlighted. The Health Ministry had in 2012,