City hall denies regularization of three Prevent Senior hospitals in SP

The Municipality of São Paulo denied the regularization of three hospitals belonging to the Prevent Senior health operator, which operate without an operating license.

According to documents sent to Prevent Senior’s CPI, instituted by the City Council, the Santana, Santa Cecília and Mooca units had their requests for issuing the document rejected due to a series of irregularities.

In a statement, Prevent Senior stated that it works to settle any pending issues at the units.

In early October, the sheet showed that 7 of the health operator’s 13 hospitals operate without a license in São Paulo.

At the time, the municipal administration inspected the addresses, fined the company R$ 260.3 thousand, and demanded the regularization of addresses.

The requests for adaptation were made by the company, but three were rejected in the first week of October.

One of the unlicensed units, located on Rua Mituto Mizumoto, in Liberdade, has no formalization process, according to a letter sent by the Secretariat of Subprefectures to the office of Councilor Antonio Donato (PT), who presides over the CPI.

The Pinheiros and Jardim Paulista units remain irregular due to the lack of the AVCB (Inspection Notice of the Fire Department), according to the letter.

Another irregular address, the campaign hospital that treated patients without an operating license, in the Vila Olímpia neighborhood, recently stopped working. The unit was fined in late September by the city.

The CPI of Prevent will vote in session this Thursday (28) the summons of the representative of the operator responsible for the regularization of properties where hospitals operate.

According to the documents, the hospital on Rua Augusto Tolle, in the north of São Paulo, did not present a series of documents necessary for regulation, such as the building project and compliance with accessibility standards.

In addition, the documents presented in the applications for obtaining the AVCB indicate that the property’s area is different from that registered in the IPTU (Imposto Building and Urban Territorial).

At the Mooca unit, the property was considered irregular by the city’s technicians, and the company appealed the opinion. The administrative process has not yet been completed.

The report of an irregular building was also the cause of the city’s refusal to grant the operating license to the hospital that operates on Jaguaribe street, in the central region of the city.

Task force

The task force appointed by the Public Ministry to investigate the role of Prevent Senior during the Covid-19 pandemic turned to the Associação Paulista de Medicina and Cremesp (São Paulo Regional Council of Medicine) to assess the operator’s patient records.

In due course these entities will help us with the technical analyses,” says prosecutor Everton Zanella, head of the task force.

Prosecutors had access to the medical records of eleven patients who died during the illegal study carried out by Prevent Senior to test the effectiveness of the “Covid kit”. Each document is about a thousand pages long.

Attorney Bruna Morato, representative of the group of doctors who denounced the health operator to the Senate CPI, was also heard by the task force.

She presented death certificates for patients who died after taking the medications from the Covid kit, as well as new complaints from doctors.