Georgetown : Cabinet Secretary, and Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon said the status of the contract to complete the Speciality Hospital, hinges on the termination of the contract to design, build and supply the Specialty Hospital by Surendra Engineering Company. He explained that three steps were taken by Central Government, one of which saw officials informing, both the Indian Exim Bank and the Government of India, of the Guyana Government’s “absolute resolve” to have the hospital built, at the Turkeyen site.
The PPP/C administration has reached out to the Indian government with certain proposals, Dr Luncheon said, with regards to the project’s future, “how specifically concessionary loan financing can continue to be provided and utilised for the completion of this project”. Government is awaiting a response from India’s “officialdom” before taking the next step.
Work on the transformational project’s construction was suspended after government uncovered several improprieties on Surendra’s behalf with regards to its financial support and operations. Legal proceedings were then instituted against the company to recoup monies paid thus far by government to the engineering company. According to Dr Luncheon, Government “feels rather strongly” that a good case has been made and apart from the “exhaustively slow preliminaries”, monetary compensation for damage for delays and distress caused can also be recovered successfully.
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