$243 Million Uncompleted Healthcare Program
In 2004, the U.S. awarded contractors $243 million to construct and equip 150 primary healthcare centers across the country. In 2007, however, SIGIR found that not even half of the facilities had been implemented, and the centers that had were poorly constructed. The slowed production, lack of oversight and poor performance by contractors added more than $100 million to the project’s pricetag. It eventually cost the U.S. $345 million tax dollars to build and equip 133 primary health care centers, short of the original request, and the centers were still in poor quality upon SIGIR’s final inspection.
