Schucry Kafie will voluntarily present himself in the courts of law

La Tribuna

8 Jun, 2015

On the allegations made against him, Schucry Kafie emphatically rejects any accusations made against himself and DIMESA and confirms his right to present himself voluntarily, as the judge requested, doing so to show that he adheres to the law.

Kafie, who belongs to a business group committed to Honduras for the past 75 years and has been investing in the development of our country, rejected the allegations made against him and DIMESA, one of the suppliers for Instituto Hondureno de Seguridad Social (IHSS), whose contract was canceled unilaterally by the Board of Auditors.

In a statement released by the Company they explained that, “DIMESA’s contract became effective in 2011 as a result of a competitive international bidding process, complying with all the stages of state’s contractual requirements. It was approved with a duration of 84 months, that is 7 years.”

However, “with barely 40 months of being in effect, the Board of Auditors at IHSS decided to terminate the contract, on January 31, 2015, that is when DIMESA ceased providing services, despite the fact that there was a substantial increase in patients’ assistance in diverse medical needs within the IHSS, having an annual increase of over fifty thousand new assistances,” points out the statement.

According to DIMESA, “this contract cannot be valued as a simple quote for equipment, but must be weighed in as part of the integral service that encompassed way more than just the supplying of equipment.”

“It included,” they stated, “the financing, maintenance, and supplying of parts, repairs, spare parts, and accessories, as well as personnel training. In this sense, the equipment financed by the company received monthly maintenance, both preventive and corrective, training was provided, parts were supplied and accessories in an unlimited fashion, until the contract was terminated.”

In the retelling of the facts, it was stated that “DIMESA’s technical team was at the institution’s use, which included 85 health care professionals specialized in biomedicine, 75 of which were biomedical experts to provide specialized attention. To date, IHSS counts with the most modern biomedical equipment of all the hospitals.”

On the other hand, “the contract included 558 biomedical equipment pieces, including magnetic resonance equipment, equipment for CT scans, x-ray with fluoroscopy, towers for neurosurgeries, mechanical ventilators, neonatal incubators, and towers for endourology among other new equipment, and 190 accessories for radiological protection.”

Furthermore, they assure that, “we have the documentation that supports the costs of the equipment as well as the services rendered.”

Finally they stated that, “DIMESA developed an orderly transition of responsibilities with IHSS and that the equipment’s full functioning was completely proven as well as the rendering of its services.”