As part of its efforts to enhance transparency, the Ministry of Health informs that following an audit of operations carried out by the Internal Audit Service of the Republic at the Ministry of Health, as beneficiary of the project "Actions to combat the spread of coronavirus COVID-19" within the framework of the Operational Programme "Employment, Human Resources and Social Cohesion" no findings were identified and the audit was successfully completed.
In particular, out of the total declared expenditure of €28.628.702,88 declared to the European Commission for the financial year 01/07/2020 - 30/06/2021 for this project, expenditure of €13.191.152,42 was audited by KPMG Ltd without identifying any ineligible expenditure.
The remaining expenditure of €15.437.550,46 relating to the purchase of vaccines and medicines was audited by the Internal Audit Service of the Republic of Cyprus without also identifying any ineligible expenditure.
The remaining expenditure of €15.437.550,46 relating to the purchase of vaccines and medicines was audited by the Internal Audit Service of the Republic of Cyprus without also identifying any ineligible expenditure.
The project concerns the response to the coronavirus pandemic in Cyprus and the actions implemented are aimed at strengthening and protecting the General Health System and the state hospitals to enable them to respond adequately to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the aim was to strengthen the prevention and detection of the virus, to prevent its spread and thus to protect public health.
In particular, the project includes the following contracts:
- reinforcement of state hospitals, both with technological equipment, such as respirators, monitoring monitors, and appropriate protective equipment for doctors and nurses,
- purchase of drugs to cure COVID-19 patients
- purchase of COVID-19 vaccines and
- purchase of reagents and other consumables related to molecular testing
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