Health experts do not necessarily make good budget or financial managers. That’s one takeaway from the recent Commission on Audit
That’s one takeaway from the recent Commission on Audit report that said the Department of Health wasted medical supplies worth P7.43 billion last year.
The COA pointed out this was not the first time the Health Department had been called out for the same reasons, since it had expired, near-expiry, and damaged medicines worth P2.20 billion in 2019, P95.15 million in 2020, and P85.21 million in 2021. If that wasn’t a bad enough indictment of the health department, the state auditing agency warned that overstocked or slow-moving drugs are exposed to the risk of possible wastage because of poor conditions in warehouses.
He promised that the DOH would look into how they can mitigate the wastage and loss of essential medical supplies.
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