Greenidge wants answers over drug purchases

Carl Greenidge

The current prorogation of Parliament has stymied parliamentary scrutiny of the Ministry of Health and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairman Carl Greenidge is concerned about who has been supplying the nation with drugs over the last six months and if any procurement laws are being broken.

“We have a situation where government is buying billions of dollars of drugs and, in defiance of the laws, has failed to provide the necessary information,” Greenidge told Stabroek News.

His concerns come even as the companies that bid to prequalify to supply the sector nearly one year ago have not to