Controversial 30 fans are already in the Algarve

Equipment is stored in Quarteira

Os 30 fans purchased by the Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC) have already been arranged and are ready to work. AMAL – Comunidade Intermunicipal do Algarve, which paid for the equipment, went public today to thank Nuno Marques, president of ABC, who just weeks ago was involved in a controversy with the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve (CHUA) about the responsibility of who bought the broken equipment.

Purchased in 2020, these fans never got to work.

The purchase was made by ABC, with money from AMAL, with the aim of donating the equipment to CHUA. But the fact that the fans were broken early on raised controversy.

About a year and a half ago, Nuno Marques, president of ABC, made public statements about the case, saying that the reimbursement of the 1,3 million euros [paid to the Chinese supplier] should be requested by CHUA because it was the 'legitimate owner of the equipment'.

Nuno Marques assured that the invoice, despite being issued in the name of ABC, was in the possession of CHUA since the donation.

But the CHUA had a different understanding of the case.

At that time, in statements to Agência Lusa, Paulo Neves, a member of the Board of Directors, considered that the refund should be requested… enforce the guarantees if what you have purchased is defective'.

This exchange of accusations even led CHUA to place Nuno Marques in court, as did the Sul Informação revealed first hand. The case originated much controversy.

AMAL has always remained silent, but this Friday, the 1st of July, he sent a note to the newsrooms in which he realized that the fans…are already in the Algarve.

In the last paragraph, António Pina, president of AMAL, emphasizes the «decisive role» played by both the Portuguese ambassador in Beijing, José Augusto Duarte, and Nuno Marques in this outcome. For CHUA, not a word.

For the time being, the devices are stored at the Algarve Logistics Support Base, in Quarteira.

According to AMAL – and as our newspaper had already revealed – the deficiencies of the fans were related «with the software and with differences in the specifications».

"After contacts made with the supplier, in China, the equipment was changed and already subjected to tests by the Common Use Service of Hospitals (SUCH), the Ministry of Health body that gave a positive opinion to its use", he concludes. the AMAL communiqué.

 

 

 



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