Tunja
There is surprise in Tunja because just two months after taking over as manager of the ESE Santiago de Tunja, Luis Oscar Galvez Mateus He was appointed as intervening agent in Bogotá.
On May 7, 2024, the National Superintendent of Health, Luis Carlos Leal, announced the forced intervention of the Integrated Subnetwork of Health Services Centro Oriente ESE of Bogotá due to administrative, financial, healthcare and legal deficiencies that have been going on since 2022 and that put the provision of services and the safety of patients and patients at risk. at that moment removed the managerto the Board of Directors and appointed Luis Óscar Gálves Mateus as auditor.
His departure, permit, or license occurs in the midst of the worst crisis that the ESE Santiago de Tunja is experiencing, a hospital that was strengthened in the pandemic but that little by little has been suffocated by debt, what’s more, the manager did not attend to comply with an agreement with the workers and the Ministry of Labor.
Gálves came to office in the midst of the difficult panorama of the ESE Santiago de Tunja, which is why he told the local media, “The first thing we did was open the operating room services at the Metropolitan Hospital, start from scratch the process of conciliation of services provided, billing, to later file and collect portfolio” and recalled that, the entity, “they left it completely defunded, with debts above 16 thousand, 17 billion pesos”.
the name of the lord Luis Óscar Gálves Mateus He has a long history in the issue of taking over intervened health entities, and it is not that it has gone very well.
On March 6, 2019, the Attorney General’s Office opened a disciplinary investigation within the intervention process of the Villavicencio Departmental Hospital, due to the “serious irregularities that occurred.”
At that time, the investigation was announced to five officials who were appointed by the National Health Superintendence to correct the failures that the entity had, but it got worse. Among those investigated are Luis Óscar Gálves Mateus who was appointed as intervening agent.
Over there The Attorney General’s Office found that the hospital’s internal contracting statute was modified, apparently eliminating requirements that favored transparent processes.also contracts with a single bidder and with multiple irregularities, such as one for the purchase of medicines and medical supplies that was modified 43 times and that started out being worth $9.9 billion, but ended up costing $41,000 million.
The Attorney General of the Nationat that time, Fernando Carrillo He described his management as useless: “The hospital’s intervention has been of no use. The hospital maintains the high risk rating, after 3 years and four or five months of having an intervention by the National Health Superintendency”.
Gálves Mateus was also in charge of the Julio Méndez Barreneche University Hospital, the governing health body in Magdalena in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
The then Superintendent of Health, Fabio Aristizábal, announced the arrival of a competent and responsible manager, someone capable of putting in order an institution looted by years of corruption.
So far it is not known if Gálves Mateus resigned from the management of the ESE Santiago de Tunja and who will be in charge of the domain forfeiture entity. before the Criminal Chamber of the Superior Court of Bogotá. The Prosecutor’s Unit for the Extinction of Property Rights and against money laundering, imposed a precautionary measure against the properties of his property”.
And he gave the location of the properties. “One of the properties is located north of Bogotá and the other in Arauquita, Arauca. Both are in the custody of the Special Assets Company. Despite these facts and the pronouncements, Luis Óscar Gálves Mateus, was appointed Intervening Agent at the ESE, Julio Méndez Barreneche University Hospital”, he warned.
So far it is not known if Gálves Mateus resigned from the management of the ESE Santiago de Tunja and who will be in charge of the entity.
