Medical Licenses Fall to 30% in July After Comptroller's Supervision and Experts Warn Caution in Projections

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After multiple reports from the Comptroller's Office that reveal a possible misuse of medical licences—including one that points out that more than 25,000 public officials traveled abroad while they were supposed to be at rest—the commitment the Ministry of Health had made during last year's parliamentary negotiations, as part of the agreement to approve the 2025 budget was adjusted as a ring to the finger: to send a project to regulate this mat…

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The Minister of Finance, Mario Marcel, reported that in July the medical licenses recorded a decrease of about 30% compared to the same month of the previous year, which adds to a 20% decrease in June and an accumulated decrease of approximately 20% in the last three months. The calculation was made based on the reports of the Superintendency of Social Security (Suseso) and the impact of the control of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CG…