Nasley Sommerville has been suspended as the Administrator at the Southern Region al Hospital and police have launched an investigation against her. But the Ministry of Health was hoping that by now she would have been arrested. But police say in order to do that they've got to get information from the bank in Dangriga - and the bank says that could take a few weeks. So Sommerville remains under suspicion, but not under accusation.
Still, the Auditor General's office has found considerable irregularities in the adminstration of the account. The Auditors found that checques were cashed form the Maternal and Child Health Bank Account between January 2010 to September 2013. The auditors directly implicate Sommerville for directly cashing at least three cheques totalling $7,060.00.
But, sources who've seen the report say that is only the tip of the iceberg. Close to 200 cheques which totalling almost four hundred thousand dollars were fraudulently drawn from the account over three years. That means the money was withdrawn but there is no record of it reaching the Southern Regional Hospital. Our information says that on some days as many as ten cheques were cashed at the bank - and no one there said anything. Sommerville told the auditors that she does not recall cashing any cheques except for reimbursements.
