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Control actions for risk prevention in emergency situations in the public sector

Abstract:

The great sphere of corruption and fraud in the public sector that have been generated in most of the public procurement processes in emergency situations executed by the GADS and the Public Health Network of the country, which have been criticized, denounced and observed by the Control Organism of the public sector entities which is the “Comptroller General of the State; The objective of this work is to demonstrate the absence of application of control procedures, since internal controls were omitted within the procurement processes of goods, services, devices and medical supplies to meet the health emergency declared by the World Pandemic. The application of the Historical-Logical research method has allowed to know how internal control has evolved in the organizational performance, and its great importance for the achievement of the institutional objectives. The absence of control actions aimed at evaluating the processes developed by public entities, mostly corresponds to situations generated by attending to interests; concluding that it is necessary to implement control actions as strategies that contribute to avoid situations of risk, fraud, and corruption in the management of public affairs.