Seven weeks after the Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS) announced that New GPC was the only company pre-qualified for the supply of drugs to the health sector, the Ministry of Health yesterday said it had not been officially notified—a claim denied by a National Procure-ment and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) official.
The Ministry’s statement was contained in a letter in yesterday’s edition of the Guyana Times written by Leslie Cadogan, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health (MOH). He was responding to a report that appeared in Tuesday’s edition of Stabroek News, headlined `Bidders: Health Ministry did not notify of drug supply decision as required by law.’
Cadogan’s letter was only received by Stabroek News around