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“There is fear because I can be chosen.” That was the response, with zero self-criticism, from the former undersecretary of Healthcare Networks Arturo Zúñiga, after the Comptroller’s lapidary report on the irregularities in the management of health residences during his visit to the Minsal, revealed this day by El Mostrador.
“When I read the Comptroller’s report, I don’t see that there has been a responsibility. I believe that the control measures installed in the Minsal, together with the measures adopted when this situation of conflict of interest was detected, were the ones that allowed no weight of the Treasury to end up in the hands of this person, “he told The second the commercial engineer and current candidate for the Constitutional Convention.
In this way, Zúñiga dismissed all responsibility in Orlando Durán, former head of the Division of Primary Care (DIVAP) since March of last year and who had the issue of health residences in his hands.
From that position, Durán even hired a hotel of which his partner was a partner, for $ 205 million pesos. The most serious thing, according to the controlling entity, is that in the Hotel Clínico SpA they appear as foreign guests who left Chile months before the date on which their stay in the hotel is recorded for health reasons.
“The only self-criticism is that when I arrived at the Minsal, because I did not even hire Orlando Durán, you learn lessons: you have to work with people with whom you have knowledge (…) I hope this person is condemned,” Zúñiga said.
Despite the fact that the former undersecretary tried to distance himself with the UDI obstetrician, the truth is that according to the report by The counter, there was an affinity between the two. In fact, that’s why Durán stayed in Adriana Tapia’s position when she was appointed to another division of the Minsal.
“The control mechanisms worked”
In his discharges, Zúñiga insists on washing his hands, and points out that “what the Comptroller’s report says is that there are control measures that should be improved, but it is totally understandable that the control measures of an institution are not designed to the most pressing pandemic in the last 100 years. Obviously it was not enough, but it was precisely those control measures that raised the alarm about this official Orlando Durán who was hiring a hotel himself and at that very moment I was the one who ruled the summary, who made the complaint to the prosecution , who ended his contract and the one who made the non-payment order, “he said.
Regarding the case of foreigners supposedly residing in health residences, the former undersecretary indicated that “this irregularity was precisely detected” at the internal level and “the control mechanisms worked.” “But it was precisely these control measures that prevented public resources from ending up being stolen,” he stressed.
For this reason, he insists that “trying to dirty a complete management of the Minsal, I think it is not appropriate. Systems must be improved but not muddy the work of 60,000 health workers ”.
Asked if this episode damages his constituent campaign, by district 9 for Chile Vamos, Zúñiga replied that “quite the opposite.” “The more noise there is from the opposition is because we are doing well,” he said.
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