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ing the manual and labour intensive paper and Excel- based systems that existed before. This is not a static organisation,” the Ambassador stressed.

When the bond was commissioned in March of 2013, USAID, under the then People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration, then Minister of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran said that it was hoped that the warehouse facility would help to reduce the amount of expired drugs being dumped each year here.

Ramsaran had pointed out that the 20,000 square meter facility, located at 1st Street, New Diamond Housing Scheme, would go a long way to address concerns that have been raised in a number of Auditor General’s reports.

Big losses were suffered by the Ministry of Health due to the expiration of large quantities of drugs, a 2010 report of the Auditor General had stated.

The Ministry of Health, it had said, continued to suffer losses due to expiration of large quantities of drugs. Noteworthy was the fact that destruction of expired drugs, valued at $39.955M, had occurred for the period under review, and that there was a large quantity of expired stock still on hand pending processing and destruction. This has been houses.

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