The North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty has re­port­ed ma­jor fi­nan­cial and op­er­a­tional im­prove­ments with­in eight months, fol­low­ing what it de­scribed as years of mis­man­age­ment and weak over­sight.

In a re­port sub­mit­ted to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, Chair­man Tim Gopeesingh said the Au­thor­i­ty in­her­it­ed over $350 mil­lion in debt, along­side ir­reg­u­lar spend­ing, pro­cure­ment breach­es and sys­temic gov­er­nance fail­ures.

He said cor­rec­tive mea­sures fo­cused on tight­en­ing fi­nan­cial con­trols, re­struc­tur­ing man­age­ment and sta­bil­is­ing health­care de­liv­ery.