Mr James Ohemeng Kyei, Director of Pharmaceutical Services of the Ghana Health Services (GHS), has accused health facilities of misapplying the Revolving Drug Fund.
The Fund, which is meant for the procurement of essential medicines and pharmaceutical-related expenditure items, he said, was rather being
dissipated on annual get-togethers, performance review meetings, printing of materials, budgeting and validation.
Mr Kyei, a Chief Pharmacist, cited the Ashanti Regional Health Directorate, which blew a total of GH�347,018.26 through such activities.
He said this when he addressed the closing session of a pharmacy sub-sector senior managers' meeting and scientific seminar at Oduom in
Kumasi on Saturday.
The theme of the meeting was: "Practising pharmacy differently towards achievement of the health-related of the Millennium Development Goals".
Mr Kyei said a report submitted by the Regional Monitoring and Technical Support Team of the GHS to his outfit showed that misapplication
of the fund occurred at the Budget Management Centres, where pharmacists were not allowed to be part of the signatories to the fund's account.
He said this contradicted the law because pharmacists are mandated to be signatories to the account at all levels of health care.
Mr Kyei, therefore, asked them to insist that the right thing was done to curb the misuse of the fund.