Health minister, Hanoi chairman answerable for Covid test kit scam

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long. Photo by VnExpress/Tran Minh

The health minister, Hanoi chairman and other senior officials bear responsibility for a Covid-19 test kit scam scandal involving the Viet A Technology Corporation, the Party's top watchdog said Thursday.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long, chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Chu Ngoc Anh who is former minister of Science and Technology, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son and Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Pham Cong Tac and some other officials of the two ministries are responsible for negligence that allowed violations in the approval, management and sale of Covid-19 test kits, the Communist Party Central Inspection Committee has concluded.

"Such violations have caused severe consequences, losses to state capital and property, caused social distress and affected the reputation of the Party, the health ministry and the science ministry, to the point where disciplinary action must be considered," the inspection committee said.

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