The controversial $632M drug acquisitions earlier this year and a more recent billion-dollar bid for pharmaceutical supplies for Regional Health Services will be the only “huge” emergency purchases in 2017 as plans are on stream to eliminate this type of procurement in 2018.
So says Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence who announced that as soon as September this year, tenders will be advertised for the 2018 supply of pharmaceuticals and supplies in an attempt to avoid a repeat of this year’s purchasing woes.
“We are going to advertise (tenders) in September for the 2018 supplies. That in itself ought to eliminate that (emergency purchases). It is geared to start the process,” Lawrence told Stabroek News last week when questioned on the matter.
“We are trying to fill that hole
