The Superintendency of Health sanctioned two legal representatives and two health service providers with fines close to 2,000 million pesos due to non-compliance with the National Vaccination Plan.
Irregularities are evident in loss of biologicals, shortcomings in the cold chain for conservation and mainly in the application of vaccines to people without prioritization.
For this reason, It was sanctioned for more than 1,362 million pesos, to Biledis Varela de Luque, manager of the Oriental Clinic of the Caribbean, IPS located in the municipality of Soledad (Atlántico).
According to the Superintendency of Health “It was shown that the institution had not provided health services since October 2019, but in April 2021 it managed, applied and prioritized the vaccination of 11 people that they did not belong to the front-line personnel ”, among them Biledis Varela.
The Delegation of Administrative Investigations of the entity verified that the prioritization was made “when passing on as human talent in health to people who were not”. The sanction was classified as fraud due to the seriousness of the facts and due to “the intention to hide obvious situations, such as that the clinic was closed and was reopened to carry out the irregular vaccination of non-prioritized personnel”.
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The entity also penalized the Santander Ophthalmology Foundation (Foscal) after proving that the prioritization criteria for the first stage were not taken into account. For example, by immunizing a plastic surgeon in February 2021.
In this case, the Superintendency also found that “it provided the vaccination service in an establishment that did not have authorization to do so.”
The fine, of 363 million pesos, It is generated because the IPS “neglected the procedures, broke the prioritization and did not respond in a timely manner to the requirements and requests for information” made by the entity.
By loss of biologicals from the pharmaceutical company Sinovac at the Mapiripán Service Center, The Departmental ESE of Meta Solution Health was sanctioned for 180 million pesos.
Likewise, for “not taking the necessary actions to guarantee compliance with the regulations of the National Vaccination Plan”, José Rafael Domínguez Ayala, manager of the ESE Fray Luis de León, from Plato (Magdalena) was sanctioned for almost 50 million pesos.
In the case of Ayala, the entity argued that it found findings related to the lack of minimum conditions for maintaining the cold chain, necessary for the conservation of biologicals, also “non-compliance in the management of hospital waste, shortcomings in the scheduling of appointments for vaccination and inadequate prioritization of nine people for the application of the biological.”
The entity also reported that continues to investigate another 23 processes due to irregularities in compliance with the National Vaccination Plan.
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