Up to September 2014, 30 months after a US$4m contract had been signed with the government, the Indian company Surendra was still to complete the supply of eight fixed pumps, according to the 2013 report of the Office of the Auditor General (OAG).
The controversial Indian firm was last year September fired by the PPP/C government from the specialty hospital project for alleged fraud. Numerous questions had been raised about the supply of the drainage pumps and why the India-funded project was awarded to it in the first place. Given the lawsuit over the specialty hospital contract, it is unclear what the status of the pump supply project is. The Ministry