ANSA McAL sole sourcing scandal: Lawrence breaks silence, admits to authorising
…implies that ANSA McAL’s donations to GPHC put them over the top
However, she outlined in a statement that her impetus for giving the contract to the Trinidadian company ANSA McAL, was because procurement for the “engineered shortage” of pharmaceuticals needed to be expedited and “ANSA McAL not only airfreighted the drugs (this helped spike the cost to import the items) for the public health sector, but also donated four refrigerators to GPHC to store the emergency supplies at the internationally acceptable temperature of 20 to 80 C.”