“With our interventionASSE successfully transferred tens of thousands of patients and the level of user satisfaction has earned it the highest marks. All the services billed by ITHG were actually provided,” they stated in a letter.
In the statement they reported that they are no longer a maritime company and that they currently have a “building infrastructure of 6,000m2, several dozen vehicles, medical and nursing personnel, drivers and stretcher-bearers.”
“At the height of the pandemic and in the face of the evident lack of resources in the system, ITHG took the initiative to offer ASSE a solution and presented it in writing. Later we were asked to quote the services and we did so. The solution we proposed consisted of providing SAME with the material, technological and human resources that were necessary for the state body to use according to its own technical directives and convenience.“, keep going.
In turn, the company indicated that it made more than 50,000 transfers “with zero incidents on board and response times consistent with the pathologies of patients and characteristics of the transfers.” “All the personnel that work for us have the qualifications required for the task and the company has implemented a permanent and free training plan since its formation, which allows it to maintain the updated training of all its medical and non-medical personnel,” he adds.
Last week the major mobile emergencies presented a revocation, hierarchical and annulment appeal so that SAME 105 – ASSE’s emergency service – halt a tender seeking to buy specialist transfers from ITHG.
According to the emergencies that signed the resource –SEMM, SUAT, Cardiomóvil and 11 others–the tender in which SAME 105 requests 24 land mobiles with the necessary crew to carry out medicalized transfers (pediatrics and adults) does not establish as an exclusive requirement that the competitors have authorization from the Ministry of Public Health (MSP), something that they understand should happen in these cases.
The controversy over the contested tender dates back several days, after the weekly Búsqueda reported that ASSE contracted specialized relocations for more than $500 million between June 2021 and October 2022, although the company did not have authorization for that and was registered as maritime services.
