Press Release/8 January 2010
The Department of Health (DOH) today announced that the investigation done on the alleged anomalous transaction of flu testing machines last year, by one of its leading hospitals, found the procurement to be in order.
Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III disclosed that the DOH purchased the said equipment after the World Health Organization’s declaration of level 6 A(H1N1) pandemic alert last June 2009.
“The DOH Integrity Development Committee (DOH-IDC), headed by Assistant Secretary Paulyn Ubial, reported to me that the procurement of the 6 units of Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) is in order and is in accordance with the provisions of RA 9184 (Procurement Reforms Law),” Health Secretary Duque said.
The health chief said that the DOH-IDC report disclosed that the procurement is not overpriced and was, as a matter of fact, the lowest among all the bidders, including that of complainant MACARE Medicals, Inc.
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