Georgetown : The National Assembly today approved the 2015 expenditure of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC.)
The $4.010 billion operating cost includes a current expenditure totaling $3.951 billion and capital expenditure totalling $59.312 million.
The capital expenditure was provision for the construction on the maternity ward, operating theatre and works at the ICU at the hospital, up to August 2015.
The current expenditure includes a total employment cost of $1.796 billion, total wages and salaries amounting to $1.449 billion, overhead expenses of $346.964 million and $2.155 billion for other charges.
Questioned during the deliberation of the estimates, Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton provided clarification of a sum of $20.730 appropriated for maintenance of buildings. He explained that the sum caters for the upkeep of health centres controlled by the GPHC.
Inquiries were also made about a $13.965 budgeted for the rental of buildings, to which Minister Norton clarified that the buildings are used to accommodate the foreign doctors and visiting tutors and examiners attached to the GPHC.
