Financial newspaper – Santiago
The sparks of the controversy continue for the more than 25,000 public officials who left the country while with medical rest in 2023-2024 in Chile.
Within the framework of the scandal, on June 2, the Undersecretary General of the Presidency and president of the General Internal Audit Council (CAIGG), Nicolás Facuse, He signed an ordinary trade in which he announced a program to review, again, the medical licenses of public officials.
Based on the “Government Audit Objectives for the 2023-2026” period, which were presented by President Gabriel Boric in February 2023and in order to apply a “preventive and complementary approach” to the results of control of the Comptroller General of the Republic, the document explains that “the strengthening of the prevention and control of the inadequate use of medical licenses with orientation to probity and integrity” was defined.
What does this mean? Which was defined to promote a program that points “to the detection of anomalous or fraudulent patterns” in the medical licenses of public officials issued between January 1 and May 31 of this year Through detecting alert signals that will facilitate service leaders “the adoption of preventive, corrective or denunciation measures, against deviations that compromise institutional efficiency, the responsible use of public resources or administrative integrity,” says the document.
The government had been working on several measures in this area. To this is added that, through the General Internal Audit Council of the Government, we have instructed the realization of an audit – with a preventive approach – so that anomalous patterns that could account for an inappropriate use of medical licenses during the year 2025 ”are identified, Facuse said.
For this, the Undersecretary emphasized that more than 240 institutions and services that are part of the central government have already been delivered. “With this measure the search is extended and it is expected to complement the findings that the initiative that the Comptroller’s Office made,” he added.
The investigation will include all medical licenses in the aforementioned period, except those corresponding to those of pre and postnatal.
