President Luis Lacalle Pou He assured that the Executive power received the recommendation to intervene Medical Union of Uruguay Assistance Center (Casmu) “without transfer of authorities”, although he clarified that the decision is not yet official.
Lacalle Pou He admitted that “some documents are missing a study,” but revealed what the suggestion of the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Public Health portfolio was, beyond the criticism of the authorities of the Casmu.
In parallel, the Executive will send a bill to the Parliament which according to the president “is already drafted” and will be signed on Monday. There the bill will be approved warranty which “may eventually give way to the need for economic liquidity that Casmu needs,” in reference to a request from the directors for a escrow.
Lacalle Pou highlighted during a press conference in Tacuarembo that the objective is for the center to “continue to operate for users and also to maintain sources of work,” highlighting “this assistance that will be provided by the “Uruguayans”.
Rejection of intervention
The president of Casmu, Raul Rodriguez, He considered that there was “no merit” for the intervention, beyond the “financial difficulties” that he admitted on several occasions and attributed to liquidity issues, which could be resolved with the trust and the approval of a loan.
Rodríguez stressed that the institution “is fulfilling all its obligations and there are no observations from the MSP to customer service.” “We have financial difficulties, not economic ones, the balance sheets are positive. Yesterday we paid BPS and we are paying salaries on time,” he said.
Meanwhile, the situation is also causing concern among workers. The president of the PIT-CNT, Marcelo Abdalaexpressed his “deep concern” about what happened and warned that “things may have a certain aroma of what already happened in House of Galicia”.
For his part, the leader of the Uruguayan Health Federation (FUS), Jorge Bermudez, He anticipated a national strike and an occupation to advance this measure and stated: “There are workers here in unemployment insurance. “Will they continue? There are unpaid wages.”
In this regard, the president of Afcasmu, Ariel Irigoytia, He said that there are 7,000 workers in the mutual fund in total and specified that 300 are already on unemployment insurance every four months.
Source: Ambito
