Ministry of Health hides billion rents of city hospitals

Ministry of Health has announced the end of 2019 financial statements. However, in the tables, it turned out that billions of lira paid in city hospitals, which are made by the method of Public Private Cooperation (PPP), are not included.

According to the news of the spokesman Erdoğan Süzer, Zekiye Bacaksız, President of the General Health-Business Union, described the Ministry of Health’s censorship income as a “censorship” and not writing the gross hospital rental expenses.

Buster, to find billions of pounds because of Turkey drew attention to the lease payments seem to have increased health spending, he said he swallowed the budget allocated to the health of resources transferred to contractors through tenders.

IS THE RENT HIDDEN?

Mayor Bacaksız stated that they have concluded that the information that should be presented to the public is hidden in the examinations made by the Ministry of Health on the financial statements of the end of 2019.

Pointing out that in the income section of the financial statements of the Ministry of Health, there is no rental income in the expenses section, Bacaksız asked, “Are these tables an effort to censor the rental expenses of city hospitals with annual payments of billion dollars?”

In the published financial statements, Bacaksiz indicates that the 2019 expenditures of the ministry are 51 billion 514 million TL and their revenues are 5 billion 557 million TL, while the first place is 21.5 billion lira in personnel expenses, the second place is 13.5 billion lira, and the third place is 12.5 billion lira. He drew attention to the fact that service purchases constitute.

Mayor Bacaksız said that 140 million lira of money was transferred to non-profit organizations last year, but it was not disclosed to which organizations this transfer was made. Bacaksız called for the balance sheets to be presented to the public in a transparent manner.

HOW DID IT INCREASE?

Zekiye Bacaksız, President of the General Health-Business Union, pointed out that in 2015 expenses were only 2 billion liras, goods and services expenses were 175 million liras, and service purchases were 38.4 million liras, “While the share of service purchases in all expenses was 1.9 percent in 2015, share jumped to 24 percent.

“The reason for the huge increase in the service purchase payments is the rent payments made to the city hospitals and the Ministry of Health service building implemented with the PPP model,” he asked.

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