By Crispina Cummings
The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee yesterday summoned officials of the government Psychiatric Hospital at Kissy to answer to questions about the findings of the 2010/2011 Auditor General's report on the operations of the facility.
The report noted that the hospital for mentally ill patients spent Le130 million in one year to fuel seven vehicles but there were no fuel chits and no records to show how the resources were utilised.
The report also noted that in general there were no books made available for inspection.
The auditors found out that purchase was made in bulk amounting to Le 43 million but there were no records because the hospital authorities claimed that the Anti-Corruption Commission had taken all their documents away.
The auditors expressed surprise that there were no duplicate copies of the records in question.
The medical superintendent at the hospital, Dr. Andrew Muana, told the committee that his predecessor, Dr. Edward Nahim, was responsible for the allocation of fuel at the hospital and that he received no handing over notes and would therefore not be able to speak on the issue.
The storekeeper, Bockarie Kambay said he had now put together everything required by the auditors.
Deputy Chairman of the committee, Eric Koedoyoma, MP, asked that the Medical Superintendent and his team "go and fix all of the queries with immediate effect", warning that the auditors would come visiting in two weeks.
