HEALTH Minister Dr Zaliha Mustafa said her ministry (MOH) would prepare a report in response to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)’s findings on the government’s management of the Covid-19 pandemic.

She said the ministry would fully cooperate with the PAC.

“We are preparing our response to the PAC. If there is any more information the committee requires, we will cooperate,” she told the media after the ministry’s Integrity Day in Putrajaya today.

Zaliha did not provide more details on the report.

Yesterday, PAC chairman Mas Ermieyati Samsudin said the MOH was expected to respond to the committee’s recommendations by next month.

This came after the PAC’s report on the MOH’s management of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“In December, God willing, we will get the response (based on our recommendations) from the MOH,” Mas Ermieyati Samsudin told a press conference yesterday.

On November 2, the PAC gave the MOH two months to respond to its five recommendations.

On October 30, the PAC tabled a report revealing issues with the procurement of unusable ventilators via WhatsApp, expired vaccines, and the over-purchase of personal protective equipment.

In the report, the PAC said 104 out of the 136 ventilators supplied by Pharmaniaga Logistics Sdn Bhd in May 2020, procured for Covid-19 patients through WhatsApp at a cost of RM24.1 million, were unusable. – November 15, 2023.