Doctors and members of a cooperative sold anesthesia In the Federal District are investigated in a joint operation between Civil Police and the Public Prosecution Service, on the morning of Thursday (10), by cartel formation .
According to police, the investigated dominated the ADF anesthesiology market and adopted anti -specific and illicit practices, such as intimidation of professionals, threats of disqualification, exclusion of the cooperative and coercion of anesthetist doctors.
“The investigations also point out that the suspects are part of a structured and stable criminal group, which has been operating for years in the anesthesiological medical services sector of the Federal District through cooperative,” police said.
Among the identified crimes are:
- Exclusive control of professional groups in strategic hospitals, preventing the entry of new doctors;
- Exclusivity in the negotiation of fee tables with health plans, eliminating competition and imposing abusive values;
- Physical and psychological threats to autonomous doctors, who tried to act independently.
Thus, for the Civil Police, there is the practice of cartel formation, impacting competition, consumers, as well as medical and private medical services.
Seven search and seizure warrants are fulfilled against members of the cooperative and doctors who have committed legal embarrassment.
The “Midaz Operation” was baptized in reference to the character of Greek mythology “Midas”, a symbol of the excessive ambition, but with the end “Z”, in an allusion to Midazolam, a medicine used for sedation in anesthesia.
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Source: CNN Brasil

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