Cutting waste spending, ensuring accountability among coalition plans to fix ailing health sector

Doctors making up the opposition coalition APNU+AFC yesterday outlined plans to address a range of problems plaguing the health sector, including the continued accumulation of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of expired drugs, lack of accountability at facilities like the Georgetown Public Hospital and centralised management of the sector.

Dr George Norton, a former APNU parliamentarian and ophthalmologist at the Georgetown Public Hospital told a