ICC suspends new services through the SUS (Brazilian public healthcare system) due to lack of funding.
With the suspension of new appointments, approximately one thousand people per month will be left without care at the Ceará Cancer Institute. The Fortaleza City Hall claims to have the resources, but says that the transfers have not been made due to a lack of an updated contract between the municipality and the institution.
Ceará 247 - The Ceará Cancer Institute (ICC) suspended new services for patients of the Unified Health System (SUS) this Wednesday (22). As a result, around a thousand people per month will be left without care at the hospital. According to the Institute, the City Hall of Fortaleza has delayed transfers totaling R$ 27 million.
The Institute claims that the City Hall has not transferred any funds since September of last year, and that investments have been made irregularly since 2015. "In one month they would pay a portion, in another they wouldn't, so it accumulated into debt. At the end of 2015, the debt was 6 million," details the clinical superintendent of the ICC, Reginaldo Costa.
The City Hall informed that the funds were not transferred due to the absence of updated contracts between the municipality and the institutions. According to the press office, the City Hall “has already contacted the Public Prosecutor's Office to find a conciliation solution so that the transfers can be made, without legal prejudice to the health managers of Fortaleza, until the new contracts are signed”.
(With information from O Povo Online)