PANAMA'S SHAME: Re-election trumps cancer care

The comptroller of the Republic said this weekend that he will demand accountability from the community boards that received funds from the so-called “parallel decentralization.” The official must assume that Panamanian society is stupid, because what this official owes us on this issue are not explanations, but audits that, by the way, it is too late to request, in order to know the fate of the hundreds of millions that the Government gave to representatives and mayors of the entire country. And it is that with that money a good part of the new National Oncological Institute would have been paid, which is collapsing due to lack of beds, facilities, and medicines. Decades waiting for the Government to get the money for this work, but it will never get it if it continues to waste it so that corrupt politicians, unscrupulous and utterly inept may have a chance in the elections. The comptroller does nothing more than justify what is clearly simple corruption. His omission of duty in this matter makes him complicit in the waste. Cancer patients die due to lack of care and medicines, but, having money, the Government gives priority to the re-election of politicians who are the greatest shame in this country. – LA PRENSA, Jul. 3.