The former head of the
PAMI
and current representative of La Cámpora,
Luana Volnovich
, came out to defend her management at the head of the organization during the government of Alberto Fernández, after the official spokesperson Manuel Adorni confirmed this Monday that they are moving forward with an
“audit.” “deep”
and underlined the level of “astronomical expenses” that the entity had.
The camper who directed the social work for retirees and pensioners during the four years of Albertista management with her partner Martín Rodríguez, whom she had designated as her number 2, published a disclaimer on her social networks titled
“The Government and a new story of the uncle".
"
Today the government
launched attacks on our management
at PAMI.
Pure story.
The 4 years were
surpluses,"
the current Kirchnerist deputy outlined her explanation.
He emphasized in his laudatory defense that all the balances of sums and balances corresponding to his management were presented to the
General Auditor's Office of the Nation
(AGN).
“What's more, on December 10
we left almost 300 billion
, which we saved during our management, in a
fixed term
and in the investment fund of Banco Nación.
Both the AGN and Banco Nación can account for that,” he explained.
He maintained that his administration at PAMI
“had two pillars: surplus and savings.”
“But managing is more than administering, that is why social works
are evaluated by the quality and quantity of benefits
they cover,” he continued, without addressing the details of the questions against him..
Martín Rodríguez, number two of PAMI and partner of the former head of social work, Luana Volnovich.
He then listed a series of measures that resulted in an “
astronomical increase
in benefits,” a term used to address libertarian accusations.
Among his achievements he highlighted the delivery of
free medicines
to members;
the installation of the Libertad Elegir system which, he said, replaced the “
disastrous and murky capitated system of macrismo
that imposed care centers and paid the clinics a fixed amount regardless of whether they served or not”;
and
digitization of the paper recipe
that, he added, was
“a source of historic fraud in social work.”
One of the Government's questions to Volnovich is the detection of the
sale of trout recipes
.
Then he turned the accusation around and raised questions about the intentions behind the complaints.
"
Why does the government lie?
Because
it spends money and time on operations?"
he asked to answer that, from Casa Rosada they would be "trying to justify the adjustment they are preparing."
“Could it be that they want to cut medications and benefits?” He concluded, kicking the other side's accusations.
What irregularities did the Government find in Luana Volnovich's PAMI
This Monday, in-person spokesperson
Manuel Adorni
announced, in his usual press conference, the preliminary results of the audit carried out on the PAMI.
“Since December 10,
$90 billion in political spending, whether unnecessary or coming from inefficiency, has been cut,”
he stated.
The official made reference as part of the fiscal savings to the shrinking of the organization's structure: "In December,
75% of the secretariats, 33% of the management
and deputy management, and
100% of the coordination
were eliminated ," he indicated.
Regarding the high level of expenses, he assured that a calculation by the current administration had estimated that, if the adjustment had not been made, "
in May it would cease to be operational due to the large deficit
it was accumulating."
Volnovich was in charge of PAMI during the four years of Fernández's administration.
Photo Lucía Merle.
Likewise, Adorni maintained that the
deficit
deepened in 2023 and
in November reached $92 billion
.
" The waste
was so great that
advertising expenses of astronomical dimensions
were found
equivalent, for example, to an entire year of reagents for members who suffer from diabetes," she explained.
But the data that most caught the attention of the agency's authorities, and that could have its judicial correlation once completed, was the
discovery of
trout recipes
.
In this regard, the presidential spokesperson considered that "the management and laziness were so obscene that, in addition, the organization
suffered a hacking
of the computer system that left 5 million members with their data at the mercy of scams. Having made the necessary cuts, The catastrophe was also avoided in PAMI,” he noted.
D.S.