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GPHC still not accounting for itself

Apr 26, 2010 News

In what would be yet another case of a Government Agency incurring a reprimand from the Auditor General, it was recently highlighted that the Ministry of Health, through the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation was not meeting its financial reporting requirements.
The Georgetown Public Hospital was incorporated in 1999, making it an independent entity.
As such, the legal obligation to have a reporting system in place for financial activity and subsequent audits of that information fell on the shoulders of the hospital’s administration.
In the 2008 audit report, it was noted that the hospital was still receiving appropriations from the budgetary allotments rather than a subvention as was required and which comes with reporting responsibilities equivalent to those required by the GPHC’s ‘new’ status.
Further examination into previous years shows that for 2003 and possibly further back, the GPHC has come under the Auditor General’s scrutiny and the same matter has been highlighted each year for five consecutive years. Namely that several years after the hospital became a corporation it still continues to be treated as an arm of the Ministry of Health, despite repeated recommendations by the office of the Auditor General to bring the agency into compliance with the law on these matters.
The Auditor Generals reports also point out that over the last few years, the GPHC has been in violation of the relevant tender board procedures in their procuring of supplies. One pertinent example is the procurement of some $1.7B in drugs from the New Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation over three years, and although the last report noted that efforts have finally been made to correct this issue, there is still much work to be done on the front.

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