The Ministry of Health tries to resolve one of the least transparent and strangest irregularities that have occurred in recent years within the Valencian Government. A mystery that must find a person responsible to explain how it happened and assume the consequences of acquiring technological material without contract or public tender .

The surprise came a few days ago, after discovering, by some senior officials, that 340 personal computers had been distributed among health personnel whose origin - invitation and purchase - was completely unknown.

These were 300 laptops that had to go to the Home Hospitalization Units (UHD's) of the different health departments and another 40 computers for senior executives of the Department of Health that landed in the Subdirectorate of Health Information Systems that Carmen Ferrer directs, without any type of acquisition or contracting procedure that justifies his arrival.

All these devices have an approximate value of 360,000 euros plus VAT (about 400,000 euros in total) because the 300 allocated to hospitalization units are HP brand Oclinic type 15.6 inches, valued at 998 euros plus VAT, while the 40 destined to the headquarters of Micer Mascó of the Department of Health also correspond to the HP brand but with a superior model (840G6) of 14 inches, because each of them reaches 1,495 euros.

Alarms on

Last December, the 300 UHD's laptops were distributed and more recently, the other 40 in the Department of Health, until a senior office found that the tender and the purchase file were missing . Apparently, it was at that time that all the alarms went off because when requesting the documentation of the acquisition from the Deputy Director General, Carmen Ferrer, the surprise was that there was no record in this regard and it was not known with what money they had been acquired .

Given this lack of information, we proceeded to return the laptops, specifically the 40 that had already been distributed between charges and health technicians, to their point of origin, which was the Sub-Directorate of Systems. To date they remain stored while looking for a solution to what is still considered an enigma.

However, the 300 computers that have been distributed in the different points to cover the home care of the hospitals have not been able to be claimed because they were already in use for two months and it would be a much greater scandal to leave the clinical and health services discovered, without this material.

Given this nonsense that lacks explanation, from the Subdirectorate of Health Information Systems a donation document was being prepared to simulate that a company had ceded the computers . However, this solution has been rejected by senior health officials, who do not find it logical that a company for no reason, without a research project, give (or donate) 340 laptops to the Ministry, for an amount exceeding 400,000 euros , after they have already been distributed in several services of the Valencian Community.

Specifically, during the month of December a distribution list of the 300 computers was established that stated that 9 had gone to the Hospital de Vinaroz, 12 to the General Hospital of Castellón, 12 to La Plana, 13 to Sagunto, 16 to the Clinical Hospital, 12 for the Arnau de Vilanova (which are pending arrival), 54 for La Fe, 16 for the Peset, 16 for the Hospital de la Ribera, 12 for Gandía, 18 for Xàtiva, 14 for Alcoi, 14 for Marina Baixa, 13 for Sanjuan, 13 for Elda, 10 for Elche and 8 for Orihuela. And there were 30 other devices pending for the General Hospital of Alicante.

The Ministry of Health confirmed yesterday that "an information file has been opened following an anonymous communication regarding this issue." This decision was made «last Friday», as officially confirmed by Health.

Since the PP have already asked for explanations about this irregularity. The popular spokesman in the Valencian Courts, José Juan Zaplana, will demand responsibilities.

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