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Dr. Minnis Calls on Tabling of All Public Health System Audits
By The Free National Movement
Aug 4, 2016 - 2:31:09 PM

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Nassau, Bahamas - Dr. Minnis, Leader of the Free National Movement (FNM), issued the following statement calling on the PLP Government to table all audits related to the public health system in The Bahamas:

“Transparency and accountability are the cornerstones of any government that truly serves the people. The PLP has all but obliterated those cornerstones and today we have but one more example of their dubious efforts. This week Bahamians are finally receiving a trickle of details for the PLP Government’s long promised NHI plans. And as a Doctor, I can say their aim is laudable, it is the details that we need to see. Yet, trust with this PLP Government is in short supply from their years of empty rhetoric and broken promises, and the fact that they have failed to table any audits of the Public Health Authority (PHA) in four years, gives the people pause about their true intentions with the NHI plan.

“How are we to assess the PLP Government’s proposal on the future of the Bahamian healthcare system if we are not privy to the details of the audits from the last four years? Again, the PLP would have us trust them, but their long, dubious record suggests otherwise. It was the embattled Prime Minister Christie himself, who previously alluded to the fact that he did not like the quality of these audits and wanted more audits conducted into the PHA. The question deserves to be asked: what did the embattled Prime Minister not want the Bahamian people to see in these reports?”

“With wide spread corruption throughout the PLP Government the Bahamian people deserve to see these audits before debate begins on the NHI plans. Previous external reports already suggest a severe culture of slackness and corruption within the PHA. So it’s of the upmost concern to the people when they hear the PLP Health Minister to announce just last week that he does not know when these reports will be tabled. How can this be the case on the eve of such a pivotal debate about the future of the Bahamian healthcare system?”

“The Bahamian people deserve to know what all audits of the government say under the law, but especially those of the Public Hospital Authority, before this PLP Government attempts to rush through NHI before the election. It will be the people left to foot the bill for their election year policy making, and the past has shown this can be very costly to the Bahamian people while failing to deliver the promised results. The FNM will not allow this to happen without a fight. And that fight starts with transparency and accountability in government. The people will be heard in this important debate and the FNM will stand side by side for them in this fight.”


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