Moreno Bonilla ceases the Director of Economic Management of the Health Service in full investigation of emergency contracts | Spain

The Andalusian Government Council has ceased on Wednesday to the General Director of Economic Management and Services of the Andalusian Health Service (SAS), José Antonio Miranda. Although the Minister of Health has indicated that Miranda had requested the relay because « she needed to rest », her substitution occurs when Health Emergency Contractsfor total amount of almost 300 million euros, which he helped to design, they are being investigated in the courts, where also Testing on the three SAS managers have been opened for alleged prevarication. The Junta de Andalucía used this route to hire the finger with private health when the legal coverage that protected it during the pandemic had declined and extended that practice between 2021 and 2024, the years over which a judge in Seville is investigating.

In parallel, Another Court of Cádiz He is studying the fractionation of health contracts, in order to also be able to grant them without advertising and competitive concurrence, allegedly carried out by the SAS Purchasing Central in Cádiz during 2021, a process that the Board has seen its request to appear in the case by the judge, which has understood that the process is still in an indicator. In addition to the chopping of sanitary awards in that territory, there are also open, although less advanced causes, in the courts of Córdoba, Jaén and Huelva, although The intervention detected irregularities in 92% of the concessions of all Andalusian provinceswhich reached a total amount of 1,223 million euros.

Miranda has been in charge of the Financial Directorate of the SAS during the last six years, where, in addition to having to deal with the pandemic, there were also the alleged abuses in emergency hiring and the fractionation of the awards in the provincial centrals, which are now under suspicion. The president of the Board when asked about these causes has limited the irregularities investigated in judicial headquarters to mere « administrative reproaches », without a criminal journey, relying on conversations with « friends magistrates. » At the moment, the Court of Seville has required more reports to the Board.

At the same council meeting, the Andalusian Government has appointed Amparo Simón Valero as the successor of Miranda in the General Directorate of Economic Management and Services of the SAS, which depends organically on the Ministry of Health and Consumption.

Its headline, Rocío Hernández, has valued the “huge work” of the ceased in the press conference after the Governing Council meeting, to questions from journalists about the reasons for the cessation of Miranda as general director of Economic Management and SAS services. In this regard, the counselor said that, « when professionals ask us for a break, » and taking into account that Miranda comes « very quickly », from the administration « we have to respect those requests », and in any case « value » their work during their « three years at the head of the Directorate of Economic and Administrative Management of the Andalusian Health Service. »

As Hernández has affected, the ceased work could only be done « a professional (…) with incredible knowledge and experience, in addition to a tremendous degree of commitment and leadership that was very necessary during the pandemic. » In that line, the counselor stressed that at that stage « not only had to adapt buildings », but « had to make purchases » and carry out « a very important logistics. » The head of Health has thanked Miranda's work at the head of the SAS Economic Management Directorate.

In January, Moreno relieved to the general auditor of the Andalusian Board that censored the health contractsand whose report was key to the judicialization of SAS contracts outside the law. The professional, in addition, was immersed in a salary negotiation that has been entrenched for months