The State Health Services Administration (ASSE) increased the purchase of medicines by more than 15% (current prices)announced this Tuesday its president, Leonard Ciprianiat a press conference after appearing with the Minister of Public Health, Daniel Salinas, in the House of Representatives. It is 35% “in constant money,” he said..
The president of the organization criticized a “disorganized system” and a “management in a very careless way”, by the ex-front authorities.
“The medications in ASSE have always been handled in a very careless manner,” Cipriani pointed out, referring to the management of the previous authorities, the Broad Front. And he continued: “We find ourselves with a disorganized system. For the purchase, for how medicines are handled in the institution, and disorderly for ordering it.”
He conveyed “reassurance to all users” that “in ASSE they have an institution that is prepared to serve them in health.” He added that “shortcomings there is always but (the institution) It has everything you need to be effective.he stated before the press.
He also announced that a unique computer system, which the authorities plan to have ready next year. “It cannot be generated overnight, we assumed two years ago,” he explained.
In that order, he criticized that the Broad Front in ASSE “invested little” and “had three systems” that were not linked together.
Call to room
Starting at 10:30 a.m. this Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies, Salinas and Cipriani appeared in a call to court called by legislators from the Broad Front.
The opposition asked the leaders for explanations about the general situation of the health system, the lack of medicines in medical centers and health plans. Below is a summary of the exhibits.
13:55 Cipriani responded to the query about the number of users affiliated with ASSE and pointed out that there are a total of 1,493,531 users.
13:51: “The MSP controls the minutes of the ASSE Board of Directors, which are analyzed by the legal services” of the portfolio, answered Salinas. The minister indicated that his ministry analyzes “all the administrative resources” and that the minutes “verify the legal extremes and the assistance aspects” of the system.
“We have established control procedures,” he assured.
12:58 Speaking to journalists during the fourth intermission, deputy Lucía Etcheverry insisted that the ministry “spends more and buys less” medicines for public health. “ASSE users wander from one service to another in search of the medicine they need,” she said during the session.
“We are not looking to blame, but rather that those responsible make the decisions to change the category,” he clarified at a press conference.
The legislator stressed that the call is addressed to Salinas because he is “politically and administratively responsible” for the problems that, the opposition understands, “are affecting all the people who have a treatment to follow and every time they are going to withdraw a drug he is not, or he cannot access the specialists, or he continues with the delay in surgeries”
11:50 Minister Salinas began by listing the inspections that the portfolio has carried out in medical centers. He specified that from January 2021 to May 2022, the MSP carried out a total of 200 controls, 137 of which were between January 1, 2022 and this Monday.
On the other hand, he highlighted the progress of the health police in relation to the means it has and, in addition, valued as a “significant number” the current number of people vaccinated against the flu: 99 thousand, since last May 2 , he said.
Last year, in just over six weeks of the campaign, 383,097 people had received the flu vaccine, number that was later multiplied to 658,174 from May to September, among a total of 700 thousand doses purchased. Not counting 2020, in which the quotas to receive the vaccine were even exhausted, the doses applied exceeded 530,547 in 2019 and 528,017 in 2018.
10:36: The questions of the opposition began after 10:30 in the mouth of the deputy Lucía Etcheverry, of the Popular Participation Movement. Among the proposals, the legislator expressed her objections to the deadlines that the public administration takes to respond to requests for reports.
As he stated, in ASSE the average response time in these cases is 86 business days. “Many times we receive partial answers, sometimes incomplete and other times very difficult to process because they are illegible. It feels disrespectful,” she denounced.
“We asked Daniel Salinas: how, who, who and on what occasions analyze and control the decisions adopted by the ASSE Board? Have you indicated ASSE management control procedures in any particular area of the ministry?” wrote on his Twitter account.
In the courtroom, he asked Salinas to explain how he fulfills his “asse stewardship and comptroller obligation” in the face of irregularities in health department directorates due to hiring and lack of medicines in some medical centers, as well as giving details of the exact amount of affiliated users.
Etcheverry, who recalled that in July 2021 Cipriani said that he did not know the total number of users served by the public health service, also asked about the current number of registered people.
