Mozambican NGO asks Ministry of Health for information on expenses

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Mozambican NGO asks Ministry of Health for information on expenses

3:44 CAT | 10 Aug 2020

Minister Armindo Tiago. [File photo: MISAU]

Mozambique’s Budget Monitoring Forum (FMO), which brings together several civil society organizations, has written to the Minister of Health, asking for information on the resources allocated to the portfolio to combat Covid-19, the organisation announced this Monday.

The FMO has asked Armindo Tiago for information on goods and services purchased and contracts for works carried out within the scope of Covid-19.

“The FMO’s request is based on Article 48 of the Constitution of the Republic and Law 34/2014, of December 31, the Right to Information Law” the note reveals, going on to urge transparency in the management of resources allocated by the government and the international community.

The organisation points out that the report by President of the Republic Filipe Nyusi on the end of the first state of emergency enacted in the country due to Covid-19 stated that the Ministry of Health had signed direct award contracts amounting to 3.32 billion meticais (about €40 million).

In an addendum to the report, the Mozambican head of state explained that Mozambique had already received US$340.8 million (€289 million) out of the US$700 million ($594 million) it asked international partners for to combat the new coronavirus.

Mozambique has registered 2,269 Covid-19 cases and 16 fatalities in a pandemic that has already claimed more than 727,000 lives and infected more than 19.6 million people in 196 countries and territories worldwide.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China. Europe succeeded China as the main focus of the pandemic in February, but the American continent now has the most cases and associated deaths.

Source: Lusa