Following the complaint that a Qali Warma supplier had paid bribes to officials of the Ministry of Health in order to “cover up” the poor quality of products that are aimed at the poorest boys and girls in the country, the Minsa issued a statement indicating that has ordered a control action in this regard.
LOOK: Qali Warma supplier would have paid bribes to “cover up” poor product quality
According to a report by Latinthere would be a corruption scheme through which the Frigoinca company, supposedly in complicity with health sector officials, They manipulated tests and covered up the poor quality of their products.
Regarding this, the Ministry of Health condemned any act that puts the health and lives of the country’s girls and boys at risk. “In this framework, the Minsa specifies that it has not participated in the analysis of products from the Qali Warma program shown in the report,” the statement reads.
He specified that this responsibility falls on the Regional Health Directorates and Managements, dependent on the regional governments, within the framework of the Decentralization Law.
“Notwithstanding the above, theThe Senior Management of the Minsa, as the National Health Authority, has ordered that a team of Digesa specialists carry out, in the next 48 hours, a control and surveillance action. to the actions subject to complaint that have been carried out in the Diresa Puno, in order to identify possible irregular events to take action within the framework of the Law,” he indicated.
Facts
The Frigoinca company produces canned chicken, meat and pork under the Don Simón brand, distributed by the Qali Warma program. This company has obtained 29 contracts for S/ 88 million soles with the State, despite the fact that the quality of its products has been questioned in several regions due to alleged poor condition of food.
Through WhatsApp messages and agreements, representatives of the company managed to have the food samples changed to prevent the analyzes from confirming their responsibility in the poisoning of minors.
In addition, The company would have selected the laboratories that would carry out the falsified analyzesaccording to the Sunday.
How to remember poisoning Food crisis affected more than 20 children in a school in Puno, but through alleged bribesFrigoinca would have managed to get the analyzes to show that the cause of the incident was water and not products.
