Beja: financial audit of the Court of Auditors to exercise 2016 the ULSBA.
The Court of Auditors' Report for the financial audit of the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo, E.P.E., for the financial year 2016, realize that this “was in technical bankruptcy, with negative equity of – 16,3 million and a debt to suppliers about 17,3 million”.
This is the report's findings on Tuesday released by TB of the financial audit of the year 2016 the ULSBA, integrated business public entity in the National Health Service (SNS) which manages the hospital Beja and health centers 13 of 14 municipalities in the district of Beja, except for Odemira
The Court made an unfavorable judgment on the accounts of 2016 the Local Health Unit of Baixo Alentejo, E.P.E., as a result of material misstatements and nonconformities detected in the financial statements and the financial reporting process.
Funding awarded through procurement programs to the Local Unit of Health of Alentejo, E.P.E., It is insufficient to meet its current expenses, leading the state to intervene periodically by injecting extraordinary funds for payments to suppliers, in 2015, 5,7 million, in 2016, 12,8 million, is at 2017, 6,9 million.
No end of 2016, the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo, E.P.E., was in technical bankruptcy, with negative equity of – 16,3 million and a debt to suppliers about 17,3 million.
The audit showed a poor internal control, and illegalities that embody any financial offenses, both punitive nature as restitution, the hiring of medical staff, the payment of salary supplements, the use of vehicles and execution of contracts without prior approval of the Court of Auditors.
Read the report here 228 pages: https://www.tcontas.pt/pt/actos/rel_auditoria/2019/2s/rel002-2019-2s.pdf
What recommended TdC
The Court of Auditors recommends that the Minister of Finance to strengthen the statutory capital of the Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo, E.P.E., in order to remove the entity's technical bankruptcy.
He also recommended to the Minister of Health to ensure, on all the health units of the National Health Service, compliance with the current legal framework for the payment of salary supplements to doctors performing management functions, leadership or coordination (12 months instead of 14 months), as well as the use of cars for members of boards of directors, excluding the possibility of personal use.
According to the report, in 2018, the current board of directors described the economic and financial situation of the ULSBA “dire” and noted that it was “new feature” when he took office, in April 2017, which shows that he accepted responsibility for management without having knowledge of the situation.
The board of directors of ULSBA, TdC made several recommendations as the implementation of “appropriate measures to meet” the “mistakes and failures” the elements of the financial statements and the financial reporting and the shortcomings of the internal control system.
In the contradictory exercise, the chairman of the board of directors ULSBA said that the agency has been making and “It will do everything to achieve” do not “mandate for which it was invested” a “rectification” the anomalies and irregularities detected.
