The charity may discontinue the SUS service

Wanderlei Perez

Without receiving the payments for the health services submitted to the City Council since May, a debt that would have accumulated in the past six months of about R$ 6 million, Beneficência Portuguesa announced on Tuesday, the 21st, that it could paralyze the “Service.open” doorstep of the hospital, where It provides only urgent and emergency care. The letter was sent from the hospital director, Antonio Rodríguez Ribeiro, simultaneously to the municipal health secretary, Clarissa Gueta, and the president of the municipal health board, Valder Paulino, and reveals the indebtedness of the entire municipal administration towards the hospitals in the municipality. The network, which responded To the Hospital of São José and, as the courts determined, to the Hospital Clínicas with promises to pay, decisions that reveal an administrative catastrophe and were made because of the risk that the interruption of care poses to public health.

“This is a special and emergency request, to negotiate old debts when possible, because there is a coming movement, on the part of the teams, to stop the “open door” service and focus this service on urgency/emergency,” warns the direction of Beneficência Portuguesa, in a notice. “I’m trying everything with the teams to give the city more time to arrange the transfers. It’s difficult, but I’ve been trying,” said director Antonio. See copy of the message.

To DIÁRIO, Secretary Clarissa informed that she had already informed the mayor of the situation. “We have already charged these charges, and we have already completed several transfers, which must not have been accounted for yet because they were made last Thursday.” [16, de novembro]“Also according to Clarissa, who intends to meet with the hospital administration to discuss the matter at the Health Board meeting, “Part of the appeal is a municipal incentive, from the mayor, and that is scheduled to be done by the end of this week.”

to update: On Tuesday afternoon, after the document was published, the hospital administration reported that the city council had deposited part of the outstanding payments. We are updating the information for a new article.

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