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IPS Operating Rooms: Provider Neighpart Argues Case Amid Investigation
🇵🇾 Paraguay /Crime & Justice

IPS Operating Rooms: Provider Neighpart Argues Case Amid Investigation

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

At a glance

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  • A Paraguayan company, Neighpart, is under investigation for alleged failures in surgical operating room construction for the IPS social security institute.
  • Neighpart claims the work is not canceled but administratively suspended at the IPS's request, providing official documents as proof.
  • The company asserts the contract is still valid with over 55% completion, attributing the pause to the IPS's failure to provide a cleared construction site.

The company contracted to install and refurbish modular operating rooms at the IPS Hospital Central has responded to an investigation into alleged construction failures. Neighpart, now NIC Paraguay, stated that the contract is "valid and in full execution," despite being six years old. The company claims the work has reached 55.68% completion on the main project and 75.11% on its expansion. Neighpart also provided documentation showing that all payments received have corresponding reception minutes signed by both parties and registered with the National Directorate of Public Procurement.

The facts are not shouted, they are documented. Contract 06/2020 IS VALID AND IN EXECUTION, with progress certified by the IPS itself. The pause was requested BY THE CURRENT administration and is documented by official note. We respond as always: WITH DOCUMENTS AND HEAD-ON.

— Claudio Escobar | CEO Grupo NICA tweet from the CEO of the company, Claudio Escobar, asserting the contract's validity and the IPS's role in the suspension.

The firm rejected claims that work cessation was due to a contractual penalty or a unilateral decision. Instead, Neighpart described the interruption as an "administrative suspension" initiated by the current IPS administration. The company stated the suspension was necessary because the construction site was not fully available. To support this, Neighpart presented an official note from July 10, 2026, signed by the IPS Maintenance Director, Juan José Sánchez Orué. This note informed the company that the IPS had begun formal administrative procedures to sign an addendum suspending the contract's deadlines retroactively to January 15, 2026.

administrative suspension

— Neighpart S.A.E.C.A.The company's official description of the work stoppage.

The IPS note indicated the suspension would remain in effect until the construction site is completely cleared or a technical viability for relocating the project is determined. This situation highlights alleged planning and space allocation deficiencies within the assistance center, according to the report.

until the construction site is completely cleared, or the technical viability of a change of location for the project is determined

— Juan José Sánchez Orué, Director of Maintenance, IPSQuoted from an official IPS note detailing the conditions for ending the suspension.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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