In addition to investigations into the procurement and inventory-keeping processes at the Public Health Ministry, expert help should be solicited in preparing a sound data-management system, Shadow Minister of Health for the People’s Progres-sive Party, Dr Frank Anthony has said.
“I think they should have an investigation into the whole procurement system where they need to do a systematic review … There are very experienced people who have been working within the ministry and should be used,” Anthony told Stabroek News last week.
Anthony said that the current issue surrounding the fast-tracking of over $605 million in emergency drugs to four companies would not have happened if government had heeded his warnings last year December that there was a countrywide shortage of pharmaceuticals, especially at the Georgetown Pub-lic Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
