VAMED Questions Health Ministry’s Competence to Manage Major International Hospital Contracts

President Ali acknowledged that Guyana was unfamiliar with the international contracting system governing the two hospitals and called for training. VAMED is now questioning whether the Ministry and its appointed engineers ever acquired the expertise needed to manage the projects.

Austrian hospital developer VAMED Engineering GmbH is questioning whether Guyana’s Ministry of Health possessed the technical expertise and project-management capabilities required to oversee two of the country’s largest healthcare construction projects.

In a strongly worded statement issued on November 6, the company challenged the Ministry’s handling of the unfinished Georgetown Maternal and Paediatric Hospital and New Amsterdam General Hospital. VAMED accused government officials of withholding payments for certified work, refusing to authorise the release of critical construction materials held at Guyana’s ports and creating repeated bureaucratic obstacles.