40. Narco-corruption in the rural health network.

That opinion of the provincial director did not like at all his cousin the nurse, who was the one behind all the racket to get Dr. Máxima out of him.

- Berta Are you behind all this that has happened?

- I only asked the president to organize the assembly to change the schedule. It is very difficult for me to work on Saturdays and Sundays, but also, I cannot help my children with their homework, because I arrive at my house almost at 10 at night, the neighborhood in which I live has been damaged, it is dangerous. When I arrive my children are already asleep. Their grades and performance in school have dropped. But the president decided to make up this whole charade against you. She has a deep hatred for you because the other day she claimed you, she yelled at her in front of the patients and practically sent you out of the dispensary.

Coincidentally, the week after the assembly to remove Dr. Máxima, in a dispensary near the city where nurse Berta lives, the nurse died of a heart attack. It was a great opportunity to change.

Berta decided to leave the Santo Tomas dispensary for the nearby San Timoteo dispensary, and since she had already been working in the Network for more than 12 years, she was able to go to work there, where she did not have to work on Saturdays or Sundays and the job was from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon.

La Paz returned to the dispensary, but to the drug dealers, traffickers and wealthy people of the town and even the owner of the TV channel, who had gone into debt to finish his 5-story building in San Medardo, and held raffles, where the prizes were put by the owner of the fishing boats of the town, who did not sympathize with the doctor, because she together with the fishermen protested because he used to fish in the exclusive area of ​​fishermen, which is up to 5 miles from the beach.

The health programs on the TV channel were over, the doctor noticed that the owner of that channel who was from Quito, like her, but was very hypocritical, she thought that it represented what the people of the coast hated the most, the mountain hypocrisy, it was a faithful practitioner of double standards, who acted treacherously when he published that lying and scandalous news against him on the news, that he was a free contributor to the channel.

The doctor continued working but without the dentist Juan Luis, who also left because his contract ended, in his place came a dentist from Guayaquil, who was nicknamed La minifalda, because she loved to wear very short skirts, to be flirtatious, to attract attention. That woman worked 6 days in 6 months, but she earned $ 1,650 for each day of work. She justified her absences because there was no water in the dispensary. Although Máxima denounced this irregularity in the provincial office of the Rural Health Network, mysteriously they never sanctioned her, nor did they ask her to reinstate the days of her absence.

 A dentist from Guayaquil arrived, completely different from the doctor with the exaggerated miniskirt, a fan of the Barcelona soccer team in that port, in which she had played when she began her university studies. He could work with or without water in the dispensary, because she collected the water she needed in containers, went to fetch it, or bought bottles of drinking water that were sold in all the shops in town.

-What was doctor? -It was the typical greeting of her to the funny Guayaquil style.

- In the town, the people who generally did illegal acts such as drug trafficking, fuel trafficking, human trafficking, and the richest, took the side of the President of the affiliates, the others for the doctor. After the assembly to dismiss her, where the evidence against the president of the affiliates and her husband appeared, the corruption in the dispensary was exposed and this was followed by the discovery of corruption in the Peasant Health Network, where some presidents of the affiliates used the contributions of the affiliates to make self-loans that ended up in their personal account, to take out bank loans and even buy a vehicle.

 It was found that the fishermen's cooperatives with gas stations sold two and up to three large gasoline tankers per week, that is, they were traffickers of fuel, subsidized for the fishermen, which was essential for the go-fast, or speedboats that carried cocaine. to Central America, or it was needed by the cocaine laboratories in Tumaco on the border with Colombia and many doctors worked only 4 of the 8 hours of their contract.

For Máxima, who went to the beach in the morning or at night to help the fishermen when they left or returned from fishing, it struck her that they came out with at least two 20-gallon cans each trip, and one day when she was swimming, he could see how one or two of those cans ended up in the diesel fishing boats, which paid the fishermen with sharks, and closed fish that fell into their nets.