50 medical staff investigated  for missing opiod

 The Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating the loss of 19,000 thousand vials of fentanyl in the Social Security Fund (CSS), ordered an audit for a period of one year to verify how the administration and custody of this synthetic opioid were handled by the institution led by Enrique Lau Cortés.

After several months, since the loss of the medication was revealed in November 2022, some members of the institution’s board of directors began to demand an account of what had happened, but it was not until last week that the administrative authorities delivered the results of the investigations that are carried out internally.

Although the investigations continue, one of the possible conclusions of the administrative authorship would be that it is not an isolated movement of a few officials trying to illegally profit from the possession of the doses  Rather, it would be a kind of institutional network, since at least 50 officials would be involved, including administrative and medical personnel, according to what was verbally reported to the management, but which was not part of the report delivered reports  La Prensa.

According to what was communicated by officials of the Legal Department, they would not be including the details of the investigation in the report delivered to the board of directors so as not to hinder the process. The names of those linked, positions, or operational mode, nor the current situation of the officials, in case they have been temporarily separated from their functions, were not revealed.