Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Stolen health funds could have benefitted Makati residents – Cayetano

9,000% overpriced 




Vice President Jojo with a special friend.
Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter “Companero” S. Cayetano said Makati City residents had been shortchanged of healthcare benefits after the Commission on Audit (COA) bared an overprice of more than 9,000% in several hospital equipment purchased by the local government.

"This means barya barya na lang ang umaabot sa mga residente ng Makati sa laki ng overprice ayon sa COA. Lalo sanang napaganda ang mga proyekto kung walang tongpats o walang kurakot. Ang kailangan ng mga Pilipino ay mga opisyal na aaksyon nang walang korupsyon,” Cayetano said.

COA Commissioner Heidi Mendoza revealed during Thursday’s Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee hearing that several medical equipment purchased by the local government of Makati during the term of Dra. Elenita Binay, wife of Vice President Jejomar Binay and mother of incumbent Mayor Junjun Binay, were overpriced by more than P61.2 million.

Mendoza said a special task force discovered that medical equipment purchased for the Ospital ng Makati back in 2000 to 2001 were bought for P70.56 million when the actual worth was only P9.31 million.



What is also appalling are the purchases of the following: autoclaves/sterilizer for P1,465,000 when the price is only P16,000 l; fetal monitoring system for P2,680,000 but originally priced P538,000; regular hospital bed purchased at P148,000 and priced at only P9,032.76; ICU bed for P545,000 when its price is only P34,123.76; Orthopaedics bed for P480,000 when it is only worth P24,087.36; ultrasound machine priced at only P1,299,750 abd purchased at an overpriced P7,980,000; and hospital cabinets worth only P2,258 purchased at P17,850.

“Ang serbisyong pinangako nila sa bayan ay dapat hindi nauuwi sa nakaw na yaman,” the senator said as he challenged anew Vice President Binay to produce his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALNs) and subject himself to questioning from the members of the Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee.

Cayetano said it was the residents of Makati who suffered because of the “pattern of corruption” under the leadership of the Binay family.
“Panahon na ng pagbabago. Hindi katanggap-tanggap ang maling pamamalakad sa Makati. Hindi dapat nakukuntento sa barya o pa-tingi-tingi ang mga residente dito,” Cayetano stressed. ###

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