Parliament has announced plans to probe circumstances under which drugs weighing a total of 2322 kg expired in the stores of Mubende Regional Referral Hospital.

According to the December 2023 Auditor General’s report, drugs worth more than Shs121 million are said to have expired between 2021 and 2022.

MP Gorreth Namugga, the Vice Chairperson of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC), questioned how the officials could allow the drugs to expire, yet patients are usually sent away and ordered to buy medicines from the private clinics.

She announced the plan to probe the hospital on Thursday while meeting the officials who had been summoned to answer the queries raised by the Auditor General.

The report noted that despite the facility grappling with the challenges of drug stock-outs occasioned by late deliveries from the National Medical Stores, the drugs got expired and ended up being destroyed.

Mubende Regional Referral Hospital has, in recent years, been reflected in the auditor general’s report over financial mismanagement.

In 2022, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) faulted Mubende Regional Referral Hospital’s top authority over a wrongly spent Shs 777.8 million on a stalled building.

This was raised in the Auditor General’s report for June 2018.

In the report, the Auditor General questioned the wrongful expenditure of 777.8 million on codes other than those for which funds were appropriated without authority.