The governments of Coahuila, Colima and Guerrero receive federal resources to invest in healthcare, but they do not justify their goal of the thousand 732 million pesos they spend during 2021, as detected by the Federation Superior Audit (ASF) in public account report Shipped this Friday.

Of the total resources not justified in the review “Compliance with the Provisions Established in the Financial Disciplinary Law of Federal and Municipal Entities (State Health Services)”, 74%, that is, one thousand 291 million pesos, according to Coahuila, ruled by PRI Miguel ngel Riquelme, who will end his reign in 2023.

It is followed by Colima, which does not justify spending 344 million pesos and which until October 2021 is ruled by José Ignacio Peralta.

In Guerrero, during the reign of PRD Héctor Astudillo, they did not justify the allocation of 89 million pesos.

In Coahuila, the Ministry of Health “did not prove the origin and purpose of the 824 million pesos budget increase.” It also reported a 37% increase in personal services, i.e., payments to personnel, with respect to the previous year, but “overpaid resources were identified with respect to the allowable limit in the global allocation of personal services to 442 million pesos”.

The audit also detected 23 million pesos for freely available revenues for the 2021 fiscal year, of which “no evidence is presented that they were used for the initial amortization of public debt, debt repayments from the previous fiscal year, current liabilities and other liabilities.”

Meanwhile, Colima’s Ministry of Health “did not provide supporting documentation” of the 48 million pesos goal or over-income goal. freely available for 295 million pesos.

In Guerrero, the Federation’s Superior Audit Office made a request to the State Health Service “to clarify and provide additional supporting and supporting documentation of the 89 million pesos assigned to the Personal Services Chapter in excess of the maximum limit established in the regulations”.

Deviations in the health sector

auditory reviewed Health Secretariats across the country receiving federal resources and detected three major irregularities:

Lack of documentation proving the purpose under the Financial Disciplinary Rules of liquidation granted by the Ministry of Finance of 878 million pesos, which represents 50% of the amount pending clarification.

The second irregularity is the amount paid in personal services that exceeds the parameters set out in the rules of financial discipline by 532 million pesos, which represents 30% of the amount pending clarification.

There is also a lack of documentation attesting to the objective under financial discipline rules of excess revenue derived from freely available income of 321.3 million pesos, which represents 18% of the lost for clarification.

When comparing the entity’s expenditure of federal resources for the health sector in 2020 and 2021, the Audit detects recurring irregularities, such as payments for personal services that exceed the parameters set out in the financial discipline rules; said irregularity represented 68.2% in 2020 and 30.8% in 2021.