The National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday found a questionable pattern of spending by the Region Six administration in 2016, when there was reportedly a record of 14 emergency purchases of gloves within a five-month period.
It was reported that there were seven purchases in April, two in May, three in July, two in August, all amounting to a total of $3.758 million, from the Inter-national Pharmaceutical Agency (IPA).
The Regional Executive Officer (REO) related that emergency purchases are made when they receive a nil document from the Public Health Ministry’s Materials Management Unit (MMU), indicating that the items cannot be supplied. The region was asked to supply a copy of that document to justify the purchases.
