Procurement of Medical Drugs

Committee members were not satisfied that a foreign company other than the PNG state-owned enterprise, Post PNG to deliver with low results.

Deputy Secretary, Eva Lionel explained that the effectiveness relies on the delivery system largely so transportation, although sometimes they cannot deliver quickly enough because modes of transport in the country is getting difficult now.

“The roads getting into facilities like aid posts because especially the kits, we have to deliver to the facilities directly and these are the companies that we got to do that.

The lack of medical supplies was due to procurement discrepancies, which points out to the responsibilities of the National Procurement Commission.

The Committee led by Oro Governor, Gary Juffa as Chairman asked hard questions to the National Department of Health Technical team, led by Secretary Dr. Liko Osborne on previous recommendations made by the previous Public Accounts Committee, on non-delivery of medical supplies.