Marcelo Lara, provincial director of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) in Tungurahua, assured that through special examinations of the Comptroller’s Office, some alleged responsibilities in the acquisition of medicines were detected.
Given this, according to the regulations, he assured that he filed the complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office.
The Prosecutor’s Office is processing nine complaints for cases of embezzlement, forgery of signatures and others, said the official, although he did not give details of all the cases in order not to hinder the processes.
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The official asserted that the Prosecutor’s Office must determine responsibilities for the alleged irregularities.
One of the cases is related to a process that was found in 2022 on a contract for approximately $240,000 for the acquisition of medicines from the Rural Social Security, of which around $90,000 in medicines had been received.
Without taking into account what remained to be received, a delivery-receipt certificate had been drawn up indicating that all the medications had been fulfilled.
In the warehouses there was no record that the missing medicine had been received. That specific case was brought to the attention of the Prosecutor’s Office so that it could intervene. In the process, another novelty was found: the drugs had overlapping dates.
He said that this situation is carefully analyzed because, being medicines, it has to be determined if there was any irregularity. It is being analyzed whether they could have expired, because for some reason another date overlapped, which should not be altered for anything, added Lara.
He also said that six people from the IESS Tungurahua have been involved in these cases and were already separated from the charges in approximately November 2022. The measure was supported by the authorities of the central plant.
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For his part, the governor of Tungurahua, Fernando Gavilanes, said that the cases are under investigation and that for this reason prudence must be exercised in order not to hinder the investigations. He assured that the progress of the processes on the complaints filed in the Prosecutor’s Office is monitored all the time.
Gavilanes maintained that the processes will continue so that the facts do not go unpunished in case the irregularities are proven. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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