Health Minister Abdullah Ameen says he does not believe any of the staff under his authority acted with the intention of stealing or committing an act of corruption when procuring the ventilators needed for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking at the hearing in front of the Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts in which members of the Health Ministry Bid committee were summoned, Minister Ameen said that none of the staff working in the ministry sought personal gain while procuring the ventilators.
He also said that none of the staff at the Ministry had the intention of misusing state funds during the Ministry’s expenditure for COVID-19.
Ameen noted that Dubai’s Executor General Company was assigned to purchase 75 ventilators because World Health Organization WHO recommended the decision.
He also said that he did not have any secrete meetings with WHO representatives although the Audit Office had alluded as such in its COVID-19 Compliance Audit of the Health Ministry.
Minister Ameen had stepped away from his post earlier this month after several irregularities about the Health Ministry expenditures were brought into the light by the report.
