More than 1,000 States Have Already Left Their Posts Following the Medical License Scandal in Chile

Minister of Finance Mario Marcel reported that charges were opened against 6,600 public officials

In just a week, since the report of the Chilean Comptroller’s Office led by attorney Dorothy Pérez , which found that more than 25,000 public officials, belonging to 777 distributions, traveled outside the country while on medical leave between 2023 and 2024, there have been 1,000 resignations and thousands of cases opened, of which 6,600 belong to administrative inquiries by employees of the central government. It is a scandal in which cases ha…

The Republic's general backlash, Dorothy Pérez, revealed during her presentation at the session of the Health Commission...

The communal chief explained that being allowed, "on recommendation and medical authorization" he moved to Arica and crossed for a few "hours" to Peru. He denies an infringement.

The abuse of medical licenses in Chile is a bad endemic, but in recent days it has proven to be a scandal that has hit across all political sectors and generated citizen discomfort. A report released this week by the Comptroller’s Office revealed that more than 25 thousand public officials made use of a medical license to travel outside the country and that 250 doctors working in the state health system also used them to provide their services i…

The recent report of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, which reports that between 2023 and 2024 more than 25,000 State officials travelled abroad despite being on medical leave, not only impressed by the large number of people involved - possibly one of the most massive corruption scandals registered in the country - but also affected by the scale of institutions involved. Of the more than 700 entities investigated in the re…