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President Sebastián Piñera said Friday that the new hospital Sótero del Río, for the district of Puente Alto, "is going to be built", and that, in fact, the call for tenders is on the point of being awarded.
He left in the wake of the controversy generated after knowing that the Ministry of Finance communicated to the Health Portfolio that there was no fund to finance the construction by this asked him to seek new forms of financing. [19659003] " It is outrageous to see that a finance minister (Felipe Larraín) has the social agenda of the government for the kick and combo . I hope that President Piñera will recall it, "he reacted ] Mayor of Puente Alto, Germán Codina (RN) before the news .
"With regard to Hospital Sótero del Río I mean loud and clear: Hospital Sótero del Río, which is so important For the municipality of Puente Alto and for the whole southern area of Santiago, it will be built "said Piñera Friday, amidst activities in the Los Lagos area.
Today Pdte @sebastianpinera tour #LosLagos where he will inaugurate an extension of the # Ruta7 in the Puelche-Pelluco sector, services of drinking water in rural Rulo, #Calbuco ] and visit the works of #PuenteChacao
– Press Presidency of Chile (@presidencia_cl) 29 June 2018
"All doubts are over"
" We will award the call for bids in the month of July of this year.Later, the stages of design will come, and when the design will be completed, the construction of Hospital Sótero del Río will begin, because it is an urgent need and a very felt need of more than two million inhabitants south of Santiago. "In this case, all doubts are over: the Sótero del Río will be built, because we have need and because it is a fundamental part of the hospital network in our country, "he concluded.
Larraín pointed out the previous government and Helia Molina responds
For his part, Minister Larraín, who previously asked the Ministry of Health to seek an alternative mechanism of funding, this Friday acknowledged that the research is Health and Finance.
" We would think about when to inaugurate the Hospital Sótero del Río s' it was not removed during the previous government (of Michelle Bachelet) project . with the Ministry of Health to find financing alternatives to find alternative financing for the hospital of Sótero del Río. "
In particular, the last Bachelet administration interrupted the hospital concession whose first government of Piñera managed to put the "first stone".
Bachelet's Minister of Health, Helia Molina recalled that "when I took out the concession hospital I did not go out on a whim, neither by ideology nor by tomorrow. I took it exclusively because the cost was very high and very long term ". " This hospital was filed in August 2017 and, in order to be able to bid by law, the Comptroller does not authorize an offer if the resources are not available in cash ", he explains.
And he pointed out: " Yes, the resources were there and I am certain If this government wants to change the use of resources, it is another history. "
The last government left the funds for the Sotero del Río
– Helia Molina Milman (@Hmolinamilman) 29 June 2018
Eyzaguirre: "Larrain was very unlucky in those months"
For his part, the former Minister of Finance of Bachelet, Nicolás Eyzaguirre (PPD), said in El Primer Café of Cooperativa that "unfortunately, and it hurts me to say it, but the minister (Felipe) Larraín was very unhappy in these months, I emphasize the very . "
" He said that there were expenses incurred in health for 500 billion pesos who were not in the budget and then sent a budget adjustment in which only he did not increase health, but he lowered 100 billion pesos.So when he said that there are huge expenses incurred unbudgeted and the health budget goes down, which happens to happen
Eyzaguirre called the Minister of Finance to "to have a minimally clear speech" .
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