The NCD Provincial Health Authority (NCDPHA) has launched an internal audit committee to provide accountability and transparency.
Chief executive officer Dr Robin Oge said: “We want to ensure that public funds are appropriately used for its purpose and we want to see people held accountable for doing the wrong thing.
“This is the system we are putting in place to make sure that NCDPHA spends public funds given to the areas of service delivery in NCD. That’s the ultimate goal and this committee will ensure that we don’t play around.”
Deputy Secretary for strategy and governance Dominic Ira said: “NCDPHA is the first authority that looking forward to good governance and asking us to establish an audit committee in Port Moresby.”
“The primary role of the auditing committee is to support the management to ensure that the public funds used are put into the intended purpose and this program helps us to manage good governance, accountability and reporting.
“This committee plays an important role, basically it supports the management to make sure that things are put in places, the systems, process, procedures and the laws that are put in place to work effectively,” Mr Ira said.
Acting Assistant Secretary for governance and compliance Nenne Esau said: “Importance of internal audit is to help the organisation meet its corporate objectives and to help accomplish its goals by bringing disciplined approach to mitigate risk through effective and sound internal controls processes.”