Ex-VCS Directors says he did not micro-manage

Apr 30, 2016 News

– insists subordinates did not perform well
Competing professional responsibilities of former Director of the Ministry of Health’s Vector Control Services (VCS), might have been the key factor that resulted in the inefficient management of the Global Fund grant to fight malaria.
According to a 26-page investigative report issued by Global Fund, the former Director of the VCS, Dr. Reyaud Rahman, was engaged in private medical practice simultaneously. This limited the time that he was able to manage the Global Fund malaria programme.
It reportedly contributed to mismanagement and misappropriation of the grant amounting to millions of dollars that Global fund hopes to recoup.
The Guyana malaria grant, GYA-M-MOH, commenced on September 1, 2011 and is scheduled to end on December 31, 2016.
But the Director in his defence, during the investigation, claimed that his position required him to manage other diseases in Guyana including dengue fever, chikungunya and leishmaniasis. He said that the responsibilities meant that he could not micromanage every aspect of VCS as some tasks were delegated to individuals who, in his opinion, did not perform well.
Based on its findings, Global Fund had made repeated requests to the Ministry of Health, the Principal Recipient of the Grant, to improve its performance in outlined areas. Among these were to ensure that it uploaded invoices relating to its purchase of bed nets financed by the Global Fund into the Global Fund procurement system; develop procedures for monitoring and controlling fuel consumption, including the submission of detailed fuel logs for each vehicle and region, with every Progress Update and Disbursement Request (PU/DR) submitted to the Global Fund; and ensure that the materials management unit (MMU) warehouse, provide monthly stock levels of bed nets and provide the Global Fund with the number and locations of distributed bed nets that were financed by the Global Fund and by the Ministry of Health.
The first two actions were brought to the Principal Recipient’s attention by the Global Fund Secretariat in October 2013 and the third point in May 2015. However, none of these issues had been satisfactorily addressed by VCS by December 2015, the report noted.
In fact, according to the report, the former VCS director had told the Global Fund’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that, as a department within the Ministry of Health, VCS itself is dependent on other departments of the Ministry of Health.
In this context, he considered that the implementation of the first and third actions was the responsibility of the MMU, and that the managers of the MMU had not responded to his requests to implement the actions in a timely manner.
With regard to the second action, the former director of VCS stated that this information was provided to the Global Fund for a specified period. However, the OIG established that the Local Fund Agent identified significant issues with the documentation provided by VCS such, that it could not provide assurance that the fuel purchased in this period had been used appropriately.
Moreover, the report noted, “Given that the ex-director of VCS occupied his position for over two and a half years, the OIG considers that his explanations are insufficient to account for why the actions were not addressed, and that VCS’s failure to implement the actions satisfactorily represents further evidence of his inadequate management of the Global Fund malaria programme.”

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