On Wednesday afternoon, the Union of Employers of the CCSS (UNDECA) denounced an alleged lack of drugs and supplies of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS), equivalent to ¢958 million in the inventory of 2016, which represents 84.53 % of the original budget for this item.
Given this situation, the CCSS assures that there is no such problem and that everything is due to an “accounting mismatch” between two information systems: the System of Institutional Costs (SICS) and the System of Management of Supplies (SIGES), as explained by engineer Dinorah Garro, logistics manager of the institution.
According to Garro, after hearing an audit report, she personally reviewed the situation to know in detail the possible causes of this report and it was determined that nothing was missing. She explained that by failing to apply the respective accounting records sent to the SICS, the inventory cuts always show inconsistencies. Garro added that SIGES is a system that keeps a detailed record of the revenues by lot, manufacturer, cost, unit of measure and expiration dates, that is to say all the detail that is registered in the bar code.
At this time, management is completing a detailed report to inform the Executive of the analysis.
In addition, the Financial Management is executing an innovation plan that tries to integrate the different systems in order to avoid this situation, informed the CCSS.