One of the biggest news this week was that the Governor of Chaco, Jorge Capitanich, wanted there to be a "popular control" of journalists. But if its control we are talking about, than the jurisdiction of the province of PAMI has little. According to an opinion from the Auditor General's Office (AGN, for its acronym in Spanish), published on April 10th, the social security agency for pensioners and retirees' accumulated 469 days of delay "in presenting the documentation.

It’s important to point out that due to law 24.156 "the Audit has the authority to require the cooperation of all public entities" they, in turn, "are required to provide data and related documents of their duties and performance." Almost a year and a half without having presented any data, the fact that PAMI hasn’t provided information to the watchdog not only goes against the rules but it is not conducive to transparency.
 
The resolution of the AGN details that the first request for the reports was made on December 28th, 2011 to the Executive Management Unit of Chaco. In it "the applicable rules, the description of the circuit and the universe of operations" was required. The Local Management Unit (LGU) "requested an extension of 60 days," which expired in April 2012. Between that month and May, the PAMI headquarters in Chacho "partly delivered their history”. Because by November 28th the documentation was incomplete, the AGN requested they provide all the documents requested before December 11th. That deadline passed and yet "the answer is pending."

On October 10th and 17th 2012, the Audit sent two notes to the Chaco UGL to ask "about the state of internal investigations, records, and provider networks," among other issues. On the 26th of that month, the Executive Coordination of PAMI requested an extension of 15 days. At the due date, "the information had not been sent." On December 27th and January 14th of this year the institute of social security for pensioners and retirees gave a part of the request, pending "a lot of important information and documents."

Moreover, on November 19th 2012, the watchdog requested the Unit of Analysis, Statistics, and Planning (UAFP, for its acronym in Spanish) “basic information to assess controls that area should have been doing on its providers." PAMI "requested an extension of 30 days expiring on November 1st." That last day, the audited "provided a partial response to the request." On the 28th of that month, the AGN requested the entire order to be delivered. On the date of publication, silence was the only answer.