HEALTH Secretary Dr Clement Malau yesterday appeared briefly before the Public Accounts Committee.
Dr Malau and his officer have been tasked to explain alleged mismanagement of more than K350 million in 2005 that was allocated to the Health Department.
Dr Malau, who took over as head of the department only recently, was also requested by PAC chairman Timothy Bonga to give his full assistance to the committee and the Auditor-General’s office in examining of the Health Department’s performance between 2000 and this year.
“Every one in this country knows the deteriorating state of our hospitals and the inability to maintain aid posts, clinics and thousands of local employees of the department,” he said.
“Huge amounts of money are allocated to health but on every statistics this country has deteriorated in health delivery performance over the last 20 years.
“We will publish the terms and references soon to invite interested members of the public to make submissions and be heard by this committee.”