MEXICO CITY 17-Jun-2022 .- A subexercise for 18 billion pesos by the Secretary of Health and Insabi was registered in the first four months of 2022, according to information from the Ministry of Finance.
Of the total amount, that is, of the 59 thousand 838 million pesos of Branch 12 that they should have exercised during the first four months of the year, 31 percent, that is, 18 thousand 701.8 million pesos they were not exercised.
Enrique Martinez, director of the Pharmaceutical Instituteindicated that with the amount not exercised, Insabi could have acquired almost 400 million pieces of medicine of the around 1,600 required annually by the public health sector.
“In a year the expenditure (on medicines) is approximately 70 billion pesos and 1.6 billion pieces of medicine are bought, with that amount (underspent) perhaps a purchase of close to 400 million pieces could be made.”
For deputy Éctor Jaime, secretary of the House Health Committee low, the underexercise is due to the inability on the part of the insabi to buy medicines, supplies and vaccines.
“What little capacity, and the population suffering and dying due to lack of medicines. For the Federal Government, raising the quality of health services and expanding coverage to the entire population is not a priority,” he said.
The PAN legislator assured that, according to the law, ineptitude is also corruption.
“(An) issue in which almost all current officials stand out. According to article 7 of the General Law of Administrative Responsibilitiespublic officials are obliged to observe the principles of objectivity, professionalism, impartiality, accountability, effectiveness, efficiency, among others, in the performance of their duties.
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“This Law also highlights, in subsection VI of the same article, that officials must manage the public resources that are under their responsibility, subject to the criteria of economy, transparency and honesty to meet the objectives for which they are intended.
“That is to say, the assumptions through which corruption is typified do not consist only of the private appropriation of public goodswhich is the most observed cause, but making bad decisions that lead to squandering taxpayer money is also a corrupt modality and on some occasions much more onerous,” he said.
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