On May 31, the COPE Committee noted that the software system installed for medical supply management had not been properly updated and was no longer in use.
The Media Unit of the Parliament of Sri Lanka announced that around Rupees. 645 million has been provided to a company to set up the system.
In addition, despite paying Rupees. 5 million a month for its maintenance, it was revealed that the system was not functioning properly.
It further stated that due to this, steps have been taken to set up a new computer system at low cost and about 80% of its work has already been completed.
Sanjeewa Wickremanayake, CEO of e-wis, the company that developed the software, spoke at a press conference regarding the allegations.
He said his company had not been paid Rupees. 500 million.
He stated that he had all the information about the money paid to his company, along with the evidence.
He said the allegations that his company had paid Rupees. 500 million to upgrade the software were untrue.
In addition, from 2015, Rupees. He also denied allegations that he had paid Rupees 5 million each to his company.
He revealed that the software had been running free of charge since 2015 and had been approved on October 23, 2017.
Software setup as well as maintenance costs Rupees. He explained that only Rupees 4.8 million had been paid to his company.
The system has been maintained since 2017. When the tender was approved in 2008, the US dollar was valued at Rupees. It was also revealed that it was based on a value of 111.
He said the software was maintained without any price increase, and that requests to change the software on several occasions had also been met.
He later said that despite the University of Colombo's recommendation to upgrade and maintain the software system, the health authorities had taken steps to spend money to develop a new software, and even though they had submitted a tender, the health authorities had chosen a company of their choice.
The CEO said that his company has many years of experience in updating the software at low cost and that all the dispensing of medicines to all the hospitals in Sri Lanka was done through his software.
Meanwhile, Sanjeewa Wickremanayake said that if anyone says that this software is not working, he will strongly reject it.
He further added that those who say they are not working are officials of the State Pharmaceutical Corporation and they cannot use their software.
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