The Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) indicates that the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) must clarify the destination of 1,242 million 800 thousand pesos spent in the 2023 Public Account.
Of these, 1,225 million 905 thousand pesos derive from anomalies in the contracting of the Comprehensive Medical Service for Clinical Laboratory Studies and Anesthesia.
In the Third Delivery of the 2023 Public Account audit, presented this Thursday, February 20 by the ASF, inconsistencies were detected in the spending the IMSS should have allocated to said services.
However, they were used to pay debts from other years and finance other programs, “without there being documentary evidence” to support it.
The above, according to the supervisory body, led to bad practices and poor work by the anesthesiology service, which even put the health and lives of patients at risk.
According to forensic audit number 194, the ASF detected that the IMSS does not have all the supporting documentation that accredits and protects the Comprehensive Medical Services of Clinical Laboratory Studies and Anesthesia were carried out and received in accordance with the provisions of the contracts.
The Superior Audit of the Federation also did not obtain documentary support to support the payments made for a total amount of 984 million 859 thousand pesos, corresponding to the Yucatán, Baja California, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Oaxaca and Tabasco delegations; and the High Specialty Medical Units (UMAE) in Yucatán, Nuevo León, Mexico City and Jalisco.
The ASF also found irregularities amounting to 11 million 365 thousand pesos in the construction of the Regional General Hospital in Juárez, in Chihuahua; for 4 million 251 thousand pesos in the contracting of the Comprehensive Hemodynamic Surgery Service.
As well as one million 69 thousand pesos pending to be clarified in the construction of the Zona General Hospital in the Municipality of Tula de Allende, in Hidalgo; and 208 thousand pesos for the payment of Contractual Benefits.
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