Hoy newspaper published a new report on the case by which the Instituto Dominicano de Seguros Sociales held a tender and then chose the contractor that had bid the largest amount to carry out the new wing to the IDSS Presidente Estrella Ureña Maternity Hospital in Santiago. Henry Sadhalá, president of the Confederación Patronal, a business organization, denounced that government and labor union representatives recommended the higher bidder, contrary to the better interests of the Social Security Institute. The IDSS is primarily funded by contributions made by private business. The local engineers and architects college, CODIA has also asked for an explanation of the irregular situation. Yesterday, Antonio Espín, the business sector representative on the board of the IDSS resigned from the post. In his letter of resignation he recommended that the business sector also leave the IDSS because to stay would be to continue to be an accomplice to the present corruption. In a letter to Celso Marranzini, president of the National Council of Business (CONEP), he says that a group of politicians and labor unions have ganged together to supposedly defend the rights of laborers when in reality they are in a frivolous way spending the money that is primarily contributed by Dominican business. He said that his proposals to improve the IDSS met with rejection by government politicians and labor unions that control the institution.
