BRAZZAVILLE — DR Congo's health authorities have
failed to explain where millions of dollars meant for building hospitals and
other treatment centers have gone, a public accountability group said on
Monday.
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The Congolese arm of the Publish What You Pay global network
— primarily concerned with transparency in the resources sector — said it
looked into 35 of 77 projects funded in the 2019 budget to the tune of 9.6
billion CFA francs ($17.2 million).
"We note a very low execution of the health budget, as
no project has been fully completed," it said in a report.
"We have had difficulty following the projects"
carried out, "we have not been able to see the traceability of
funds", said Brice Makosso, deputy coordinator of the
Congolese coalition.
The NGO said it had submitted its report to the Ministry of
Health two weeks before publication, but had received no response. An official
at the ministry contacted by AFP declined to comment.
The money should have been used, among other things, as part
of the cost of building 12 general hospitals.
But despite the money having been disbursed and spent, work
on the hospitals "was at a standstill in 2019", Makosso said.
Funds were also allocated to equip dialysis centers in
budgets from 2017, he said.
However, "these centers are not yet built, and
therefore non-existent".
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