{"id":7757,"date":"2019-01-09T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev?p=7757"},"modified":"2019-01-09T08:49:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T13:49:05","slug":"ppps-frank-anthony-lambastes-govt-on-drug-procurement-hiv-aids-tb-and-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/ppps-frank-anthony-lambastes-govt-on-drug-procurement-hiv-aids-tb-and-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP\u2019s Frank Anthony lambastes govt on drug procurement, HIV\/AIDS, TB and diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opposition People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP) Shadow Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony on Tuesday assailed the David Granger-led coalition administration for alleged bad drug importation deals, unregistered importing entities, increased prevalence of HIV\/ AIDS and failure to assist the country\u2019s estimated 60,000 diabetics with free glucometers.<\/p>\n

Anthony, who is one of his party\u2019s presidential candidate hopefuls for the 2020 general elections, was evidently passionate as he contributed to the 2019 National Budget debate.<\/p>\n

Noting that Junior Health Minister, Dr. Karen Cummings confirmed multiple drug resistance tuberculosis (TB), Anthony said that was due to a shortage of critical drugs, inadequate monitoring, non-compliance and sometimes patient poverty. \u201cMany of these patients are too ill to work and with the paltry sum set aside for public assistance, when they do benefit, it is hardly enough for them to survive,\u201d Anthony said. He insisted there were up to recently shortages of TB drugs from the Global Fund.<\/p>\n

In the area of HIV\/AIDS, he said the disease has been on the rise in certain age groups- the adult prevalence rate being 1.7 percent; 6.1 percent among sex workers and 8.4 percent transgender persons. He\u00a0 echoed calls by the gay and lesbian rights organisation, Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD), for government to introduce Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis to help reduce the incidence of the disease among high-risk groups. \u201cI urge the government to implement this most effective way of preventing this disease in the country,\u201d he said. The Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Shamdeo Persaud has said government was studying the experiences of other countries and organisation in using PrEP. There are an estimated 8,200 persons living with HIV, but 5, 237 are receiving treatment, prompting him to call on government to allocate more funds to treat everyone tested positive.<\/p>\n

Dr. Anthony called on the Guyana government to match its words with action in fighting non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. While a glucometer, which is used by diabetics to test their blood sugar levels, costs about GYD$5,000 each, Anthony said government could have easily supplied these to the estimated 60,000 diabetics countrywide. \u201cIf we take the money that we had wasted from the Sussex Street bond, we could bought about 65,000 glucometers and give it to those patients.,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the\u00a0 Public Health Ministry was filled with \u201cstench\u201d on procurement of drugs and other medical supplies, as he alluded to the 2017 Auditor General\u2019s Report that states that ministry had single-sourcing drugs through 13 contracts valued at GYD$91.4 million. \u201cSingle sourcing, we know Mr. Speaker, can lead to higher prices for the items because the vendor has a monopoly,\u201d he said.\u00a0 Contracts amounting to GYD$278.5 million were awarded without bid security, splitting of 11 contracts totaling GYD$82.5 million to four contractors, and GYD$104.1 million in single-sourced drugs\u00a0 through six contracts without the approval of the Tender Board were among the observations made in the Auditor General\u2019s Report. \u201cThe tender board was asked to rubber stamp the transactions after the deliveries were made to the suppliers.\u00a0 Dr. Anthony cited HDML Labs as possibly being given preference for the award of a GYD$409.4 million contract for the supply of medical supplies instead of the initial contract price for GYD$366 million. \u201cWhen the contract was audited then we saw how much more was given to this company,\u201d he said, adding that there was a huge gap between that company and other offers. \u201cThis is how our money is being squandered and wasted in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence has publicly defended sole-sourcing to fulfill emergency needs for drugs.<\/p>\n

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Opposition People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP) Shadow Health Minister, Dr. Frank Anthony on Tuesday assailed the David Granger-led coalition administration for alleged bad drug importation deals, unregistered importing entities, increased prevalence…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[138,116,139],"class_list":["post-7757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-drugsmedicine","tag-guyana","tag-healthcaremedical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-appointment-doctor-healthcare-Pixabay-pexels-e1713481653466.jpeg?fit=1024%2C682&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-217","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25700,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/health-ministry-awaiting-procurement-of-tablets-to-treat-covid-19-dr-anthony\/","url_meta":{"origin":7757,"position":0},"title":"Health Ministry awaiting procurement of tablets to treat COVID-19 \u2013 Dr Anthony","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"January 12, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Guyana \u00a0 With the Ministry of Health recording new COVID-19 infections daily, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony says the Government of Guyana is still relying on the United Nations International Children\u2019s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to procure paxlovid tablets to treat the disease. 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