Despite having convened a press conference last Saturday on the controversial award of a contract for the specialty hospital to Surendra Engineering, the Ministry of Health is still to answer key questions, including why a company with major hospital building experience was not chosen.
For several days Stabroek News has been attempting to elicit answers on the contract award from Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Health Leslie Cadogan but he has been unavailable and yesterday Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran said that he was taking an “arm’s length approach” to procurement and referred all questions to Cadogan,