Previous Board of Directors did not transmit to new guardianship the information of the case that harmed the region in 140 thousand euros. An employee will have taken the crime.
The Regional Secretary of Health and Social Security of the Azores revealed this Thursday that a “fraud”In the sick trip service at the Ponta Delgada Hospital, in the Azores, which damaged the region in 140 thousand euros.
“There was the discovery of a fraud, already by this board of directors, [perpetrada] On the part of an employee, who damaged the use of users in 140,000 euros, ”said Mónica Seidi, heard at the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry to the Hospital of Divino Espírito Santo (HDES), gathered in Ponta Delgada.
According to Mónica Seidi, the case will have occurred in 2023, but the previous board of directors of the HDES, then chaired by Manuela Gomes de Menezes (but removed from office), would not have transmitted this information to the guardianship, which, however, referred the case to the Judiciary Police (PJ).
The holder of the health portfolio in the archipelago said that “disorganization”That existed within the previous board of directors, will have contributed to the Azorean coalition executive (PSD, CDS-PP and PPM) to choose the previous president and also the vowel also António Vasco Viveiroswhich had been appointed in May just to “deal with financial issues.”
“To my surprise, just for two occasions he dealt with with me of financial issues,” recalled the ruler, referring to the previous person responsible for the maintenance and equipment service, who prepared a report that the main building of HDES, damaged by a strong fire on May 4, 2024, would be able to reopen its doors in August of the same year, after some light interventions.
The Regional Secretary of Health and Social Security understands, however, that “it was not a solution” to do works at HDES and “serve the users” simultaneously, adding that, for clinical security reasons, the Regional Government decided to invest in the installation of a modular hospital and, at the same time, to prepare a background intervention in the main building.
“The well-being and safety of users are above politics and parties,” insisted the ruler, who is now awaiting the elaboration of a final operational program, to launch the contest for the background intervention that is necessary to hold at the largest hospital of the Azores.
