The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week questioned the approximately $112 million discrepancy between the sum budgeted to procure drugs and medical supplies for Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) in 2019, and what was actually received by the region, but received no satisfactory explanation.
This is based on the Auditor General’s Report for that year, which was before the PAC this week. According to the report, a financial return from the Ministry of Health showed that the entire amount budgeted to purchase drugs and supplies for the region, over $210 million, was spent. However, the region’s list of what was actually received amounted to just over $98 million.