FIVE contracts for drugs and medicines of Lapu-Lapu City amounting to P3.51 million could be bought for only P1.8 million at the retail drugstore of the Department of Health (DOH), depriving the city a chance to save P1.66 million.

This the Commission on Audit bared in their city audit report in 2012, adding that the “city of Lapu-Lapu is persistent in acquiring its drugs and medicines requirement from local suppliers without first considering the availability of the items from the DOH.”

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