The technical director of ANS (National Supplementary Health Agency), Daniela Kinoshita Ota, attributed the omission of the Covid-19 code in the death certificates of patients from Prevent Senior to human failures. The health operator is accused by doctors of tampering with documents to forge statistics on the disease.
According to the technical director, employees who prepared the death certificates were forgotten “due to the situation, the number of people who were being hospitalized, the number of professionals who were working at that time”.
“We understand that [foram falhas humanas]”, said the director to the CPI of the City Council this Thursday (17).
The ANS has been monitoring the health operator’s procedures since October last year, when the technical director was appointed.
According to her, at the end of February, the operator finalized the Assistance Sanitation Plan, a mechanism created to solve the problems in serving the beneficiaries. “We will start to see changes in the service structure from March,” said the technical director.
Regarding palliative care, which concentrates most of the complaints from family members and patients, the director said that a reinforcement in the training of the team was recommended to clarify the concepts of palliative care, “which were creating conflicts between doctors and patients”.
According to the director, Prevent Senior has undertaken to restructure the committee that decides on this type of treatment.
The technical director of ANS stated that flaws were found in the performance of three committees of Prevent Senior, Medical Ethics, Review of Records and Review of Deaths. “They didn’t review all the deaths that were happening, there was no record of it,” said Daniela about failures in document management.
Regarding visits to service units, the director said that in one of the network’s emergency rooms the air conditioning was not enough to maintain the temperature of the environment, which is stuffy. “It’s an emergency room with a lot of people and also the elderly, even more so at the time of the pandemic.”
Summoned for the third time to testify to the CPI this Thursday (17), the owners of the health operator, the brothers Fernando and Eduardo Parrillo, did not attend the session. With that, the hearing phase will be closed without the businessmen hearing.
“I think it’s disrespectful to the CPI and to the beneficiaries of Prevent Senior”, said councilor Antonio Donato (PT), president of the CPI, after reading a statement from the company’s lawyers justifying the absence. According to the defense, the businessmen are in Rio de Janeiro on corporate commitments.
Last Thursday (10), the Parrillo brothers also failed to call the CPI and stated, via lawyers, that they were in Rio de Janeiro to meet the company’s commitments.
The week before, the reason for the absence was that the brothers had flu-like symptoms after traveling together during the Carnival holiday.
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