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The event center management Espacio Riesco, located in Huechuraba, denounced that the Ministry of Health owes it more than 4 million dollars for the rental and implementation of the premises as an emergency hospital center to receive less serious patients infected with coronavirus, a role that it exercised between May and August.
The general manager of the company, Sergio Gutierrez, affirmed to T13 that the amount owed for the services amounts to “2,900 million pesos plus VAT”, a figure that should have been paid -according to the executive- “four months ago”.
Last July, the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) declared illegal the Espacio Riesco agreement signed on March 25 of last with the North Metropolitan Health Service (SSMN) after identifying that the document that established the provision of facilities for the facility “doubled” payments for the authorization and maintenance of basic infrastructure.
According to the supervisory body, this was already stipulated in a first lease contract with the Undersecretariat of Assistance Networks – at that time, in charge of Arturo Zuniga-, in which the leasing party “undertakes to maintain the infrastructure of the leased property, in a state of operation such that it can be used in accordance with the intended destination, that is, an emergency room for the delivery of health benefits “.
From the Minsal they declined to refer to the case and referred the matter to the SSMN, according to T13. The director of the service, William Hartwig, acknowledged the debt, but denied that the figure is what they claim from Espacio Riesco.
“In our case of the Health Service, we have a debt with Espacio Riesco of 2,092 million (pesos)“, indicated the doctor.
“In order to pay them, we have to send the contract to the Comptroller and, once the contract is taken into account, we proceed to pay”, justified the head of the North Metropolitan Health Service.