Nicolás Maduro proposed this Thursday to appoint “secret inspectors” for each hospital in the country. Its objective would be to control and, supposedly, help health centers “reborn and strengthened.”
“I want to appoint a secret inspector for each hospital in the country, who is an external inspector who joins the health committees, the community councils and we are going to keep an eye on it, to make a controller and support so that the hospitals are reborn, strengthened Go ahead,” Maduro said in a televised act.
“Secret inspectors” in hospitals
Maduro indicated that we must also confront the “mafias that exist in some health centers.”
“I am not saying in all, I am not generalizing, but they exist. They ask patients to buy things outside and they go to the store, pick them up and sell them outside. They exist and we have verified it », he stressed.
He added that “there is already a group of people,” without specifying how many, who worked in hospitals that are prosecuted by the Venezuelan Prosecutor’s Office.
“We are going all the way, because we have to build a free, quality and universal public health system that is an example for the world,” he said.
Personal health care
On April 28, the NGO Médicos Unidos de Venezuela (MUV) rejected the detention of health personnel or their exposure to public ridicule. This, after statements by the government of wanting to “end the hospital mafias.”
“In recent times, on social networks, a series of actions by State agencies have appeared, in cases that sometimes even do not concern, carrying out actions of deprivation of liberty of health personnel who work in the public health system. health or exposing them to public ridicule without due process,” the NGO said in a statement posted on Twitter.
Doctors United stated that public hospitals are controlled by doormen, militiamen, groups and “rarely private security companies.”
“It is clear that the only way that these hospital mafias can operate would be in the event that the authorities of the establishment do not exercise their functions of guard and custody, warehouse control or being aware of the situation as accomplices,” he added. .