Fiotec was the subject of a panel ministered by the Vice-president of Institutional Management and Development of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Pedro Barbosa, during the V Seminar Third Sector and Partnerships in Health, held last year in Rio de Janeiro. The institution, which has also supported the event, was represented by its Executive Director, Maurício Zuma, the General Manager, Adilson Gomes dos Santos, and other collaborators.

Pedro Barbosa talked about the current public management model and made a review on the legislation governing the role of the government regarding health. “The government structure is only another dimension requiring improvement for meeting the Unified Health System (SUS) challenges. Fiocruz, acting in an intersection room among health, science, technology and innovation, also deserves a modernization process”, he explained.

About Fiotec, Barbosa told how it was instituted, in 1998, and how it became the only support institution for all the 17 technical and scientific units of Fiocruz. He added also that all projects managed by it are approved by the supported institution. “We say Fiotec makes the Fiocruz system. It is governed by an agreement, its custody is made by our statutory bodies and all of its managers and boards are nominated by our Presidency and approved by our Deliberative Board”, he said.

Activity as SO

Fiotec’s qualification as Social Organization (SO) by the local government of Rio de Janeiro was also mentioned by the Vice-president of Fiocruz. He has shown the operation and logic of the internal governance of the project Teias-Escola Manguinhos, which is the only performed by the institution using the SO qualification. “This is part of the development of management practices in basic attention areas”, Barbosa explained.

Transparency

Pedro Barbosa emphasized the Fiotec’s prioritization for transparency. “We praise very much the fact that the institution’s website presents management reports, in addition to the whole logic of account rendering by external audit, Advisory Board and Board of Curators and the Public Prosecutors’ Office”, he said. He stressed the importance of the institutions using public funds follow the government’s regular control system.

Fiocruz System

Pedro Barbosa highlighted, in the end of the panel, that Fiocruz is an institution that persists with the challenge of updating and improving its devices for the best accomplishment of its mission. “We are finding ways of articulating several administrative modalities in only one system. The mission is unique and, as basis, there is the Fiocruz governance operating with a public foundation of public law, with a support foundation, which acts as SO in a certain project. There is also the construction of a model of subsidiary company in a certain area. All in all, we made that we call Fiocruz system”, the Vice-president concluded.

*Collaboration: Luanara Damasceno