By Sarah Hannan
The National Trade Union Front (NTUF) has called on the Government to look into the 30,000 expired PCR antibody kits purchased for the Mulleriyawa Molecular Biology Laboratory, which was built by a Chinese company at a cost of over Rs. 250 million this year, due to non-use.
“We urge the Secretary to the Ministry of Health and the President of Sri Lanka to launch an immediate investigation to ensure that the Mulleriyawa Laboratory, which was built at great expense, was not yet another waste of foreign-funded projects that was initiated in the country.”
“If the Mulleriyawa Molecular Biology Laboratory had no necessity of the reagent kits at the time, these could have been distributed to other laboratories before the expiration date to minimise wastage,” NTUF Convenor Ravi Kumudesh explained.
The union emphasised that the lack of a positive response from the Ministry of Health was unfortunate.30,000 PCR test kits expired due to non-use
14 Oct 2020
30,000 PCR test kits expired due to non-use
14 Oct 2020
By Sarah Hannan
The National Trade Union Front (NTUF) has called on the Government to look into the 30,000 expired PCR antibody kits purchased for the Mulleriyawa Molecular Biology Laboratory, which was built by a Chinese company at a cost of over Rs. 250 million this year, due to non-use.
“We urge the Secretary to the Ministry of Health and the President of Sri Lanka to launch an immediate investigation to ensure that the Mulleriyawa Laboratory, which was built at great expense, was not yet another waste of foreign-funded projects that was initiated in the country.”
“If the Mulleriyawa Molecular Biology Laboratory had no necessity of the reagent kits at the time, these could have been distributed to other laboratories before the expiration date to minimise wastage,” NTUF Convenor Ravi Kumudesh explained.
The union emphasised that the lack of a positive response from the Ministry of Health was unfortunate.Kapruka
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