The Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Fatima Matute, omits in her official presentation in which she worked for 17 years for the private Quirón health group, despite the fact that the Madrid law forces the high positions to reveal her “complete professional career.” The silence about such a long work stage is striking because it is since President Isabel Díaz Ayuso appointed her for the position in 2023. However, the links between Chiron and the Community of Madrid have become a sensitive political issue. PSOE and more Madrid have criticized the cost and opacity of the autonomic relationship with that private giant, the main client of Madrid, and the outbreak of Ayuso’s couple’s caseinvestigated for an alleged bribe to an executive of the group, has provided new ammunition to the leftist opposition.
Matute includes a summary of three paragraphs in which he mentions that after passing through the university, his career in Madrid public health, as a radióloga at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital. He says that in that center he has developed “his main activity.” In addition, it emphasizes that she is a vice president of O that she has done a health management course at the IESE Business School.
What does not count is that it was hired in 2006 by the Hospital de la Luz de Quirón, a private center located in Chamberí. In 2021 he was promoted within that company to the position of Director of Assistance of Diagnostic for the image in Health Diagnostic.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Health decreases importance to the omission of the stage in Quirón, claiming that Matute “has never hidden his professional performance, both in the public and private sphere.” The spokesman adds that the review of the Transparency Portal follows a brief model and not a detailed and chronological relationship of his career. In addition, remember that information about your professional past
However, the Organization Protransparencia Civio emphasizes that Madrid’s law is very clear by forcing high positions to reveal all their professional information, an aspect that is not less because it allows us to know possible conflicts of interest. The representatives of Civio participated as experts in the processing of the Madrid norm, which was approved in April 2019, six years after the State Transparency Law. A first version of the Madrid norm talked about including “the professional trajectory” without the adjective “complete” and Civio insisted that that coletilla should be added, as the co -director of that organization, Eva Belmonte, should be added.
“We strive to include that adjective not only for the curriculum, but also for other circumstances such as the agenda,” says Belmonte. “The imprecise language allows administrations to silence information.”
The profile of the directors in the Transparency Portal responds to a legal requirement contained in the Transparency Law of the Community of Madrid. The law obliges the high positions to reveal “the complete professional trajectory”, in addition to economic data such as the declarations of goods, the expenses derived from the exercise of their functions or their agenda of work meetings. This other information does appear in Matute’s profile.
Matute has maintained the same professional summary on the portal at least since March 3, 2024, according to the information filed in the Internet Archive repository, which periodically captures web page screens.
The autonomic relationship with Quirón is questioned intensely by the leftist opposition in Madrid. The group receives financial compensation for putting four of their hospitals at the service of Madrid (the Jiménez Díaz Foundation, King Juan Carlos de Móstoles, Villalba and Valdemoro). The opposition criticizes that this form of expense is more expensive than the one that would involve direct public management and is involved in opacity. In the first six years of Ayuso government, Quirón for its services for the Madrid health system.
To the discomfort by that system inherited from the times of President Esperanza Aguirre, the distrust that generates in the opposition Ayuso’s relationship with businessman Alberto González Amador, whose health consultant is closely linked to Quirón has been added in the opposition and is being being
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