By Ragan M. Conteh
The 2022 Auditor General’s report has revealed that during their investigation at the Bo district medical store, the auditors noticed that there were faulty and inadequate equipment found at the district medical store.
The auditing team also observed that during physical inspection of the Bo district medical store, they found out that:
All the air conditioners and fans were not functional; there was only one refrigerator at the district medical store and which was not functional.
Investigators noticed that there was low EDSA power voltage noticed. Also the stand-by solar at the facility was faulty and its batteries and ‘inverters’, the recommended, needed replacement.
The auditor generally recommended that the DMO and other relevant authorities should immediately address the poor conditions of the district medical store.
It should speedily address issues like: limitations to access funds for service delivery. Auditors say the PHC could not access its funds to implement activities on its annual work plan/budget.
Further examination revealed that even though SLE278,050 was allocated in FY2022, the PHC could not access SLE151,954 due to a High Court order which warrants ‘stop-payment order (garnishee order)’ on the Bo City Council’s
account.
This prevented the PHC from carrying out key activities in the annual work plan for 2022.