President David Granger has appointed a Cabinet Sub-Committee to review, examine and report on the storage of medicine and medical supplies.
This was disclosed last evening in a Ministry of the Presidency release and comes in the wake of building controversy over a deal that the government struck for a Charlestown bond.
The release said that Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Raphael Trotman has been appointed to chair the Sub-Committee and it includes Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and Minister of State, Joseph Harmon.
Cabinet at its meeting yesterday was briefed by Minister of Public Health, Dr George Norton on the matters raised in the Committee of Supply of the National Assembly on Monday relating to storage of government medicine and medical supplies.
The release said that the Sub-Committee met yesterday, at the Office of the Prime Minister and was provided with a detailed brief with regard to the issues, needs and challenges related to the storage of medicine and medical supplies.
Trotman and Dr Norton subsequently conducted inspection tours of both the Sussex Street, Georgetown facility along with the Ministry of Public Health Supplies Chain Management Complex at Diamond on the East Bank of Demerara, the release said.
The Sub-Committee is in the process of preparing an initial report and a further statement will be presented at the post-Cabinet Media Briefing on Thursday, August 11, the release said.
