A pending investigation is to analyze the irregularities and acts of corruption that is expensive in the purchase of medical materials for Covid’s attention: medicines, cubrebocas, respirators, baths, gloves, etc. Insufficient purchases, surreptitious purchases, ghost business contracts, the purchase of caducic medicines or without a sanitary register, and many more cases. However, in order to be able to analyze the irregularities that are taking place in Mexico, it is also necessary to take into account the extracts recorded from medical records of the actual administration. One of the cases to be analyzed, and not only in the reference to the purchase of medicines, has to be seen with the contracts registered on the platform Compraet bajo the category of “other contracts”.
If there is a revision of the drug sales from 2013 to 2020 on this platform, you can appreciate various things. First, the variation in the total amount of purchases by type of procedure: from 2013 to 2017 las “Public tenders” eran superiors to the “direct adjudications” and the processes of “invitation to when less than 3 people”. In 2016, it is more important than the judge of the adjudicaciones directas. Without embargo, since 2018, the year of governing transition, a new category in the platform will appear: the “other contracts”. Please note that this classification does not allow us to identify whether there are processes that are open to public tender or direct adjudication. In 2018, the amount registered for “other contracts” in the purchase of medicines was minor: 4 million pounds, compared to 23 million contracts contracted at the federal level for “public tenders”.
As of 2018, the amount of drug contracts registered at the federal level with the “other contracts” category has been significantly increased, so that by 2020 the number of registrations in this category will increase by 5 weeks to the number of registered bids. What surprises me the most is that many of these contracts are not found on the platform because they are not subordinate. Mention the year in which the register of “other contraindications” is stored in the purchase of medicines for these reasons: first of all, it is possible to see its classifications that are hiccuped in the sanitary emergence of Covid, but this explanation can be seen in this type of contract from 2018. Second, because the federal government argues that debating corruption and opacity in the purchase of medicines was necessary to change the model of purchase. All this analysis depends on the research that is Alejandro Melgoza for the project “Operation Disabasto”.
For those who are not familiar with the current crisis and intensified drug abuse in the country, we recommend reviewing the work of the “Cero Disabasto” collective and the investigation, beforehand, “Operation Disabasto”, of Impero Cero and Justice Justa. Having a very short summary of the halls of these scandals comes to signal that the current situation and agitation for drug disasters is the product of a failed anti-corruption strategy of the current government. Learning that corruption in the health care sector is drastically changing the model of buying and distributing medicines producing the generalized disaster of medicines that are alive. What we believe is the worst case scenario: an over-the-counter drug purchase system, opaque buy processes and an endless and ineffective public health system to deal with Covid and the rest of affections and diets.
Constantly the President is referring to a narrative scheme: that it is not like the antiquities and that in the current administration, corruption and impunity are accepted. If it is true that it is necessary to demonstrate to the public the contracts of all the drug sales and explaining what is referred to when mentioning “other contracts”.
Executive Director of Impunidad Cero.