It began this Wednesday, in Porto, the trial of former presidents of the IPO of Porto and the Algarve Hospital Center. The accusation says they have damaged the state in 100,000 euros, money used to take a northern doctor to the Algarve.
It is true that there was an agreement to give a doctor from Porto IPO to the Algarve, but was not a staircase scheme to benefit third parties. It was before a way that they considered more agile, linear – and even transparent – to solve the problem of the lack of a southern radiotherapist.
For orange bridges, it was then a matter of institutional solidarity.
“This should be an agreement that should be celebrated as a prototype of collaboration between institutions and was considered by some state interveners as a crime … It is not any irregularity, we as presidents of the Board of Directors have every right to make agreements,” said Laranja Pontes, former president of the IPO of Porto.
The former president of the IPO of Porto Board of Directors admitted the payment of 200 euros of cost aid, 17 euros for each extra hour of work and 60 cents per kilometer of the doctor who was moving to the Algarve every week by plane.
But it guaranteed that the agreement did not bring any profit or damage to the IPO. He defended Pedro Nunes. The President, at the time, of the Algarve Hospital Center assured that all contracts were validated by the hospital jurists
Different understanding has the Public Prosecution Service that believes that the action of Orange Pontes and Pedro Nunes damaged the state in almost 100 thousand euros. The prosecution says that the counterparts offered to the doctor were prohibited by law and the hiring scheme for illegal direct adjustment.
Orange Pontes and Pedro Nunes are accused of bleaching crimes, economic participation in business and document falsification.
