The report of Wednesday, the Government Accountability Office said that government agencies have lost about 1400 articles in the value of $ 3.5 million between October 2007 and January 2009 – including $ 37,000 in the laboratory of the Health and Navajo $ 7,300 trailer in Nashville, Tennessee

These losses, estimated at 15.8 million in equipment, was not taken into account in the period between 2004 and 2007 budget. These losses were in the GAO in June 2008, investigators also found that the Indian Health Service of false documents were some missing values.

In the GAO said the agency was incapable of most of the recommendations of last year, or hold people accountable for damages. The report indicates that the main strength of the Agency property is also a bonus of $ 13,000, according to the report submitted to the mismanagement of the past year has been published.

“The weak signal in the upper part remains the IHS, with a high level of leadership, did not fully implement and enforce the eight of 10 recommendations that we are in June 2008, the report says.” These failures contribute strongly to the loss and theft of property.”
The losses that have not yet taken into account in the 2002 ultrasound system for $ 170,000 in 2003, X-ray mammography machines for $ 100,795, dental chairs, monitor the heart and pharmacy tablet of the machine, as indicated in the report.

Indian Health Service Thomas Sweeney, the agency implements more efficient electronic real estate tracking system to find devices that have already been reported as lost – often because it is located in a remote location. He said that some people and in June 2008, a report was later found.

The agency is part of the Department of Health and Human Services, and is responsible for providing health care, Indian reserves. This is clearly insufficient, and officials estimate they have about half of what they need to function.