The Ministry of Health, by decree published on Thursday (10), requested the return of the 20.7 million Brazilian reals transferred by the federal government for maintenance of beds in intensive care units in Sobral between 2012 and 2022. In a memo, the municipality said the decision was “without technical criteria” and that it would be launched Justice.
During this period, according to the Ministry of Health, the Federal Administration transferred public resources to ten non-existent families. When the order was published, in 2021, the municipal health minister, Regina Carvalho, declared that it was all a miscalculation on the part of the ministry.
According to her, in February 2013, the state government passed a resolution requiring the Department of Health to reclassify ten of these Type II ICU beds to coronary intensive care beds (with a specialty geared to the care of cardiovascular disease) – making them more expensive. At nearly double the cost per unit.
Also, according to the director, the problem arose because the Federal Ministry should have excluded ten Type II households from the register, but only included ten other households in the National Health Facilities Registry. The “mistake” ended with an increase in the amounts transferred to the municipal health.
Authorization
The complaint was formally submitted last year, to the Department of Health, by Federal Rep. Captain Wagner (Pros). In March 2021, on social media, the parliamentarian provided information that the appeal had been restarted.
Also on social media, Mayor Evo Gomez (PDT) responded to the opposition post and declared that returning the resource would harm the health of the municipality.
“Let’s be clear one thing: If there is this return, it will be money from the health of Sobral residents, in the midst of the epidemic, money from the county accounts,” the mayor said.
At that time, the city council also stated, through the secretary, that resources had been used in the areas of cardiology and angioplasty at the Hospital do Coração itself and that there had been no irregularity. He announced that “these expenses were within the ceiling (hospital expenses) and were used in the unit itself, and everything was calculated.”
city hall
In a note, the Sobral Municipality Health Department announced that it was surprised by the decision and claimed that the document signed by Minister Marcelo Quiroga was “arbitrary and without any technical criteria”.
The ministry said that when the problem was identified, in 2018, it tried to correct the data on the number of beds with the National Registry of Health Facilities (CNES), and that all the information needed to understand the process was sent to the ministry. .
The secretariat stressed that the resources of the “Ministry of Health are used entirely in health procedures, without deviation, as the municipality is nationally recognized for its financial responsibility.”
The administration closes the memo by declaring that it will “take legal action and seek appropriate legal action until the effects of the decree are rescinded, as the document has no other power than to harm the residents of Sobral with clear political and electoral objectives.”
Ministry of Health
The report also asked the Ministry of Health for details on returning the supplier, but received no response.
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