Moreno Bonilla ceases the Director of Economic Management of the Health Service in full investigation of emergency contracts | Spain | EUROtoday

The Andalusian Government Council has ceased on Wednesday to the General Director of Economic Management and Services of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), José Antonio Miranda. Although the Minister of Health has indicated that Miranda had requested for reduction as a result of “she needed to rest”, her substitute happens when well being emergency contracts, for a complete quantity of just about 300 million euros, which he helped to design, they’re being investigated within the courts, the place there have additionally been investigations on the three SAS managers for alleged prevarication. The Junta de Andalucía used this route to rent the finger with non-public well being when the authorized protection that protected it in the course of the pandemic had declined and prolonged that follow between 2021 and 2024, the years over which a decide in Seville is investigating.

At the identical time, one other Court of Cádiz is learning the fractionation of well being contracts, with a view to additionally be capable of grant them with out promoting and aggressive concurrence, allegedly carried out by the Purchasing Central of the SAS in Cádiz for 2021, a course of that the Board has seen its request to enchantment within the case by the decide, which has understood that the method remains to be in an indicative part. In addition to the chopping of well being awards in that territory, there are additionally open, though much less superior causes, within the courts of Córdoba, Jaén and Huelva, though the intervention detected irregularities in 92% of the concessions of all Andalusian provinces, which reached a complete quantity of 1,223 million euros.

Miranda has been in control of the Financial Directorate of the SAS over the last six years, the place, along with having to cope with the pandemic, there have been additionally the alleged abuses in emergency hiring and the fractionation of the awards within the provincial centrals, which are actually below suspicion. The president of the Board when requested about these causes has restricted the irregularities investigated in judicial headquarters to mere “administrative reproaches”, with no felony journey, counting on conversations with “friends magistrates.” At the second, the Court of Seville has required extra reviews to the Board.

At the identical council assembly, the Andalusian Government has appointed Amparo Simón Valero because the successor of Miranda within the General Directorate of Economic Management and Services of the SAS, which relies upon organically on the Ministry of Health and Consumption.

Its headline, Rocío Hernández, has valued the “huge work” of the ceased within the press convention after the Governing Council assembly, to questions from journalists concerning the causes for the cessation of Miranda as basic director of Economic Management and SAS providers. In this regard, the counselor stated that, “when professionals ask us for a break,” and making an allowance for that Miranda comes “very quickly”, from the administration “we have to respect those requests”, and in any case “value” their work throughout their “three years at the head of the Directorate of Economic and Administrative Management of the Andalusian Health Service.”

As Hernández has affected, the ceased work might solely be performed “a professional (…) with incredible knowledge and experience, in addition to a tremendous degree of commitment and leadership that was very necessary during the pandemic.” In that line, the counselor confused that at that stage “not only had to adapt buildings”, however “had to make purchases” and perform “a very important logistics.” The head of Health has thanked Miranda’s work on the head of the SAS Economic Management Directorate.

In January, Moreno relieved the overall auditor of the Andalusian Board that censored well being contracts, and whose report was key to the judicialization of SAS contracts exterior the legislation. The skilled, as well as, was immersed in a wage negotiation that has been entrenched for months