Auditor General to audit Alberta Health grants to Pure North private health foundation – CBC

Liberal health critic David Swann says Alberta Health also needs to conduct own investigation

Jun 19, 2017

Alberta’s auditor general has partially acceded to a request from Liberal health critic David Swann for an audit of two Alberta Health grants to Pure North S’Energy, a private health foundation that offers unproven alternative health treatments.

In a recent letter to Swann, Auditor General Merwan Saher said his office examines Alberta Health’s grant processes as a matter of course, but will conduct a more in-depth review of the Pure North grants.

“The [Pure North] grant payments in question will be selected for testing,” Saher said.

But a spokesperson for Saher said no decision has yet been made on whether his office will conduct a separate performance audit to determine if the funding itself was merited and provided value for the public money spent.

Auditor General to audit Alberta Health grants to Pure North private health foundation – CBC

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