Controversy surrounds establishing information management system
- Former State Minister and Additional Secretary have been subjected to severe criticism for establishing an Information Management System - ‘Swastha’- by spending a staggering Rs.101.8 million
- The MSMIS expansion project was in its final stages when the project was cancelled by the Health Ministry without any reasons being given to introduce the new system called Swastha
- In order to manage the medical supply to health institutions in the country, the first phase of the MSMIS project was initiated in 2015 connecting the MSD with 82 health institutions
- In order to get the Swastha project implemented, it is reported how the Ministry officials have misled the AG’s Department
The involvement of a former State Minister of Health and an Additional Secretary Ministry of Health to introduce an ‘information management system’ to manage medical
supplies to health institutions in the country is controversial, higher officials of the Health Ministry claim.
In order to get this project implemented it is revealed how the Health Ministry changed the status report issued by the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) in 2021. This report recommended improving the then existing system- Medical Supply Management Information System (MSMIS)- but instead it turned out that the ‘entire system’ was changed in a scandalous way.
Former State Minister of Health Prof. Channa Jayasumana and Additional Secretary Production Supply and Regulation of Pharmaceuticals Dr. Saman Ratnayake have been subjected to severe criticism for establishing an...
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