A complaint against a former general manager presented the board of the private Clínica Las Condes (CLC) this for billionaire financial damages under the Covid-19 pandemic.
According to la Segunda newspaper, the criminal action brought before the Fourth Warranty Court of Santiago is against commercial engineer Fredy Jacial, a trusted man of its president, Alejandro Gil, for the crime of “unfair administration”, accusing him of damage of almost 8.6 billion pesos to the company’s share capital during the performance of its functions.
In the action, CLC contends that during Jacial’s administration it received patients with Covid-19 from Fonasa “in excess”, following the Ministry of Health’s demand on private clinics to increase their critical bed capacity to receive public system affiliates in April last year.
As a result, the clinic exceeded the 64 critical beds set by the Minsal for that establishment as of June 9 last year, to a figure that meant 8,598 million pesos in losses to its assets, as the cost of its treatments exceeded the payments that Fonasa made for each of its affiliates.
“There are days when more than 117 Fonasa patients were counted from the public health network. This was the case, just to give a demonstrative example, on June 11, 2020. So the excess of 64, which in this case the example would be 53 (more than you could have), are derived Phonase patients that CLC should not have admitted,” says the complaint.
Because of this, they accuse Jacial of failing to comply with his responsibility to report the increase of coronavirus patients to the open limited company’s directory, “failing to inform the board of such circumstances”.
