Three years after government faced a scandal over the rental of a Sussex Street drug bond from a party member for millions of dollars, the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) yesterday commissioned a 428.5 square metre bond extension at its Diamond, East Bank Demerara facility, costing some $161 million.
As she urged the Minis-try of Communities and heads of Guyana’s other nine administrative regions to follow suit in building their own storage spaces, Minister of Public Heath Volda Lawrence underscored the role the investment serves in the timely provision of healthcare services and preventing wastage.
“The rental of buildings has been quite a fiasco in Guyana but here we are, a positive for the ministry,” Lawrence told attendees at the commissioning of the facility, which is located at First Avenue, Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
