Tyrone Reid, Sunday Gleaner Reporter

The Ministry of Health will be launching an investigation into allegations of wanton abuse and mismanagement of an on-call payment facility, specially approved by the finance ministry to compensate public-health nurses and other health workers for the extra work they were expected to perform during the malaria outbreak in 2006.

The Sunday Gleaner understands that approximately $1 billion was paid out under the special-payment mechanism long after the spread of the vector-borne disease had been contained.

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