Scammers abound in almost all public hospitals

It is old, common practice and known in major hospitals in the country the presence of so-called "buscones", people who do go through doctors, nurses, orderlies and other employees who seek to enter the care centres to defraud patients with promises of expediting surgeries, medical care or retirement of corpses.

in specialized hospitals in Traumatology, Darío Contreras, such "buscones" functions make lawyers entering capture patients injured, who is convinced to make sign them judicial powers in order to bring their cases to court, but once they see the document disappears and the patient does not return to know of them.

the practice of "buscones" is so common that only Francisco Moscoso Puello Hospital have been thwarted this year at least 10 cases of people with these characteristics wanting to enter the Center, he revealed his u000aDirector Roberto Lafontaine.

This has been done, explained directors of hospitals, to redouble action controls and security, so it becomes increasingly difficult to "intruders" to achieve their objectives.

Lafontaine explained that when a person enters new work at the hospital is the style give the proper identification and becomes a process of presentation of the health center and its departments. "Are hospitals in high demand and one of the problems is the buscones, so it is always attentive to that and we have drawn the institution's people are spending by patients, doctors, nurses, orderlies, for anything, but since that we notice or are reported, we proceed to get them," noted.

Understands that what has happened recently with the identification of a fake doctor in a hospital, serves to alert patients and society to denounce that kind of facts, and that when taking to the u000acourts are given follow-up.

Understands that they are people who take advantage of patients who arrive at times desperate, and give money without, because hospitals are prepared to respond without the need for middlemen. said that that happened much with corpses, people came to the families of those killed for asking for money to expedite the procedures, what did that the hospital attend auxiliary of the tax authorities.

Lawyers
Meanwhile, the director of the hospital Darío Contreras, Héctor Quezada, said that the possibility of entry of fake doctors or nurses is minimal in the hospital, because it there all the personnel is properly identified, but has Yes constituted a serious problem the case of lawyers "buscones".

explained that you despite the ban imposed by the hospital, there are lawyers that combine with police or orderlies and other employees to enter u000ato seek injured patients, who you get to sign a document, which is a power, sometimes they win their cases and the affected party does not see nor a penny.

Said the legal consultancy for the hospital provides guidance to patients so that they do not fall into these claws, Quezada pointed out that the hospital does not accept enter lawyers with supposed powers signed by patients, and to accept them have to be duly requested by the prosecution.

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Foundation CRISTALIA makes donation
the director of el Moscoso Puello hospital was interviewed on the subject while it received a donation of medicines and expendable material valued at 200 billion pesos, from the hands of the President of the Foundation Cristalia, Domingo Santana.
Santana stressed the contribution that makes the hospital for the thousands of poor patients who seek care at the Center, in the meantime, doctor Lafontaine valued donation and said that they have great significance and speak very u000aof the social work carried out by that entity.

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