Clouds linger over modular hospital

The fundamental action of the State is to guarantee the lives of citizens. This, however, does not preclude questioning the tender procedure and the construction of the modular hospital, which enters into service without the endorsement of the Comptroller General of the Republic. Public opinion faces a series of doubts about the peculiar participants in the hospital tender; the entanglement of the Turkish company, whose owner said he did not know about the project and that its prices were inflated, and, of course, if the modules used to build the hospital were the discards of a port in Costa Rica.

The haze worsens because the Minister of Public Works refuses to explain. Other aspects of the project shake the citizenry: that if the occupation permit has a lower value than the tender, or if the ventilators that equip the hospital are of recent manufacture. Despite all this, we Panamanians hope that the facility will serve its patients and contribute to the fight against Covid-19. Could it be that justice will tell us why it was done wrong, if it could be done well? –LA PRENSA, June 12