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16 December, 2020, 7:30 pm
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama visited isolation facilities for #COVID19 in the Western division. Picture: SUPPLIED/FIJIAN GOVT
The Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) says the Ministry of Health and Medical Services had budgeted for $14.4 million in overtime while drawing up a $83 million budget for Fiji’s COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan.
In its report on Compliance Audits Relating to COVID-19 Response that was tabled in Parliament last week, the OAG stated of the 40 items listed as activities to be funded by the $83 million budget, it was noted that anticipated overtime expenditure comprised about $14.4 million or more than 17 per cent of the estimated six-month budget.
ANISH CHAND
16 December, 2020, 9:00 pm
Members of the Fiji
security forces attend
to a report of COVID-19
at a settlement in
Nabua, Suva in April
this year. The Fiji
Police Force used
$698,661 from the
Head 50 allocation
while $150,000 was
given to the Republic
of Fiji Military Forces,
according to the OAG
Report. Picture: FILE
The Fiji COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan was not submitted for Cabinet’s endorsement, says the Auditor- General’s Report on Compliance Audits Relating to COVID-19 Response that was tabled in Parliament last week.
The objective of the audit was to obtain sufficient and appropriate evidence to form a conclusion on whether the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MoHMS) through the Incident Management Team (IMT) had implemented response actions in accordance with Fiji Coronavirus (COVID-19) Preparedness and Response Plan.