The Municipal Assembly of People's Power in Isla de la Juventud, during the XXX ordinary session corresponding to the seventeenth term of office, today evaluated the execution of the State budget with a deficit result in current operations at the end of the first semester of 2021.
Ramón Ledesma Céspedes, head of the permanent work commission of Attention to the Economy, informed the plenary that in the Public Health sector the over-execution of the plan is located for a value of 16 million 712 thousand 799 pesos, destined to contain the epidemic and minimize its effects on the health of the pinera population.
This negative balance is associated with the high costs for the leasing of premises, gastronomic services and accommodation, as well as ground and air transportation, the latter with an outlay of 6 million 840 thousand 652 of CUP, said the also president of the subsidiary National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba.
Daraisy Tamayo León, municipal director of Finance and Prices, said that due to the geographical location of this special municipality, the sector has also incurred expenses associated with the air transfer of patients to the capital of the country, where they receive medical attention in specialties not present in the territory.
Related to the significant increase in public spending to face the new coronavirus, in this emergency situation the country's leadership decided to sanitary intervention for more than 60 percent of the total population, that is, to the pine trees aged 19 and over. administered the anti-COVID-19 vaccine Abdala.
For a simple mathematical calculation Tamayo León emphasized that each dose has an approximate cost of 150.00 pesos, while Israel Velázquez Batista, municipal director of Public Health, specified that in the second Cuban island more than 155 thousand doses have been applied to the premises .
Inclusive social policy allows the application of security or social assistance measures at the request of the community to protect groups at greater risk of social vulnerability.
In this sense, it was known that the social assistance item is executed at 98.8 percent, in which the cash benefit to 1,195 households living in vulnerable conditions stands out, although for the second semester a budget has been designed to In order to avoid its overdraft, said Tamayo León.
For his part, Ledesma Céspedes assessed the situation as extremely difficult, not only due to the intensification of the blockade but also because of the pandemic outbreak that forces the reconstruction of the economy and readjustment of its finances while still guaranteeing basic services for the future the population.
Despite the complex scenario, the temporary committee considered that the resources are a function of the main priorities of the territory, an economic and social dynamic is guaranteed and recommended working to increase business efficiency, which requires budgetary discipline and demands greater transparency in the processes accounting and administrative.
Liván Fuentes Álvarez, president of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power, entrusted the Board of Directors with presenting and implementing actions that allow the fulfillment of the planned income, in accordance with the current context, and consider reducing expenses in those items in which it is possible to save.