Up to July this year, the New Guyana Pharmaceu-tical Corporation (NGPC) had $171M in supplies outstanding from a 2014 contract of $2.2B and this was likely one of the reasons why the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Leslie Cadogan was sent on leave as of today.
On July 14th, 2015, the Head of the Materials Management Unit (MMU) of the Ministry of Health, Prakash Sookdeo wrote to Cadogan stating that despite the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) having the responsibility to validate that 100% delivery was made on contracts,
