692. Private entities: 80% charge for fictitious oral medicine services

At 58, prosecutor Leonor Furtado is proud of a career dedicated to fighting corruption. He passed through Timor-Leste, the Ministry of Environment, the Court of Auditors, the Council of Europe and the Central Department of Investigation and Criminal Action. Since 2015, she has been working to find out how many ways the State can be deceived at the expense of diseases: it is an inspector general of health activities, an area where fraud is worth millions.Jornal PÚBLICO - What health frauds that hit you the most?Attorney Leonor Furtado - So much fraud is a citizen who acquires sunglasses for the whole family to apply for ADSE as the case of the doctor who prescribed so many antibiotics to the elderly father that he or she had already killed him or else that was not true. Last year we intervened in oral health and the dental check. I was shocked to find places where the instruments were not disinfected. It was an action that targeted the five largest private entities in the Lisbon region. Even more shocking - and that is where the fraud is - is that in four of them, services never rendered to the State had been invoiced.

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