A medical certificate is generally necessary when a worker is unable to perform functions for a health problem. In Salvador (BA), however, some employees have used this type of document adulterated to ensure a temporary removal of the work. At least two people have been fired for cause in recent months in the Bahian capital for presenting false certificates.
In both cases, the documents would have been allegedly issued in Salvador Emergency Care Units (UPAs). The suspicion is from a criminal scheme with sales of fake attestants over the internet.
This week, one of the cases was released by the Bahia Regional Labor Court (TRT-BA). A former employee of a candy shop located in the traditional neighborhood of Graça, which was pregnant at the time of the facts, presented seven medical certificates allegedly issued by the San Martin UPA. However, the fraud was discovered: only one of the documents was true.
Despite the presentation of counterfeit documents, the former employee appealed the decision that dismissed her for just cause. However, the TRT-BA upheld the initial decision, dismissing the appeal and confirming the legality of the dismissal, causing it to lose the action in the Labor Court.
Sought by the report of CNN a lawyer specializing in labor law revealed another fraud. Juliana Costa Pinto provides services to a school in the Bahian capital and last year the teaching unit distrusted medical certificates presented by an employee of the establishment.
Just as the candy shop acted with the former pregnant employee, the school, together with the lawyer, sought the UPAs of two different neighborhoods cited by the employee and found that the doctor in the certificate never worked in any of the health facilities. According to the investigation, it would be a cardiologist with active registration at the Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Bahia (Creamb).
Sought to answer whether the certificate was true or not, the medical coordinator of one of the UPAs issued a statement stating that the doctor mentioned in the document is not even part of the unit’s professional staff. “We will also inform that the document presented does not match the printed standards of this health unit,” said coordinator Abevailton Miranda da Silva in May 2024.
The lawyer stressed that in fact the paper has no address of the unit, let alone a logo of Salvador City Hall.
“I cannot say that they are employees of the unit, but there is a possibility that the scheme has started with people who have access to these boundary papers,” said Juliana who still added: “Police authorities need to find out because it has been recurring.”
The Bahia Civil Police say they can only investigate cases if reports are registered.
Already the Municipal Health Secretariat of Salvador (SMS) reported, by note, that repudiates any practice contrary to professional ethics and legality. “The portfolio does not corroborate or deals with illicit conduct, since adulteration of medical certificates is a crime framed in the Brazilian Penal Code. It also points out that the authenticity of the document referred to by the report can be verified on the website of the Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Bahia (Creamb),” said the statement.
It is worth remembering that the adulteration of a medical certificate is a crime and can yield prison of up to six for those who circumvent and present this type of document. In the labor sphere, employees can be dismissed for just cause.
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This content was originally published in a sales scheme fake medical certificates is discovered in Salvador UPAs on the CNN Brazil website.
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