The Superior Council of the Judiciary authorized judge Carlos Alexandre to lead the new commission to combat fraud in the SNS, which should begin its duties before the end of the year, the Minister of Health announced this Tuesday, December 9th.
“We are naturally pleased to receive the news from the Superior Council of the Judiciary regarding the authorization for judge Carlos Alexandre to occupy this position for which he was invited and nominated by the Government”, stated Ana Paula Martins, after visiting the Matosinhos Local Health Unit.
As he said, The commission to combat fraud, created at the end of November by the Government, should begin its functions in the coming weeks, with a team “dedicated to this mission” made up of elements from various entities.
“This is a unit that exists in several countries and that will operate with very modest resources, in the sense that the people who will work with Judge Carlos Alexandre are designated to work full time in the various bodies”, said the minister.
According to the resolution published in Diário da República on November 26, the Commission to Combat Fraud in the National Health Service (SNS) will have permanent members from the Judiciary Police, the General Inspectorate of Health and Finance and the National Medicines Authority (Infarmed), among others.
It must centralize, coordinate and execute the fraud prevention and detection strategy within the scope of the SNS, in coordination and cooperation with the competent entities for determining disciplinary, financial and criminal responsibilities.
Ana Paula Martins highlighted that the commission will have the “vocation, even for the entities it brings together, to look at what can be improvement processes in the SNS and also processes that need to be investigated and evaluated”.
“It is a reinforcement of the monitoring, evaluation and prevention capacity to combat fraud and in no way pinches the entities we have” within the scope of the functioning of the SNS, guaranteed the government official.