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Report Overprices Paid by Pami in the Purchase of Intraocular Lenses
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The Asociación de Trabajadores del Estado (ATE), one of the two state representative unions throughout the country, reported overprices in the PAMI in the purchase of intraocular lenses. “From the union we have verified the existence of overprices and the payment of returns in the acquisition that the social work made of intraocular lenses for the operation of cataracts,” warned the leader Rodolfo Aguiar, head of ATE nationwide, on social networ…
A new corruption scandal shakes the government of Javier Milei in Argentina, specifically the National Institute of Social Services for Retirees and Pensioners (PAMI), the social work of Argentine retirees. According to reports revealed by journalist Luciana Geuna on the TN channel,
In parallel, more than 500 ophthalmologists reported that the PAMI went from paying transparent prices for cataract lenses to paying up to ten times more, which sparked outrage in the health system. In this scenario, serious complaints also emerge in Misiones: the district president of La Libertad Avanza, Adrián Nuñez, was accused of demanding 10% of the salary from public officials to finance the party campaign. Diego Hartfield, candidate for n…
Pami’s affiliates in Rosario met Monday with the total suspension of ophthalmology shifts. “There is a quilombo with Pami, they can’t do it to the study,” a patient complained in a center in Pichincha. The referent of the Assembly of Retired Persons, María Elena Molina, confirmed that “all shifts are being rescheduled”, in the context of the conflict that the agency is going through due to the scandal of overprices in the purchase of intraocular…
(NA) – The PAMI said today that there are no overprices in the purchase of intraocular lenses and explained that comparisons with individual values are not valid due to the volume and complexity of the public tender, ensuring that the current system guarantees “free” and “traceability”. Gastón Valverde, auditor of the agency, pointed out that the versions on inflated costs are based on references that do not reflect the real market. “The lowest …
The organism neg irregularities in the purchase of inputs for cataract surgery and assures that the values respond to higher standards of safety and transparency in the procedures.
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