12/17/2020 18:15
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 12/17/2020 6:22 PM
Several deputies of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) will present a request on Friday to initiate a political trial of the Minister of Health, Ginés González García, for
"poor performance of his duties and for compromising the health of all Argentines
" during the coronavirus pandemic.
According to
Clarín
, the initiative has the signatures of 29 deputies of the opposition coalition Together for Change and the person in charge of its design was the Tucuman José Cano.
"Unfortunately we have reached a situation that is critical and alarming, out of all control and without a health direction in the face of COVID-19," says the text that will enter the lower house tomorrow.
The referents of the UCR point against the head of the health portfolio, above all, for "
underestimating
" the impact of Covid-19.
"The pandemic was unpredictable and we understand that it was not and is not something easy to handle for the Executive Branch of any country in the world, but in Argentina it
has been underestimated by the Minister of Health
since its inception at the beginning of this year," they recalled.
They remarked that this "underestimation has led us to constant disorganization, a loss of credibility due to the lack of information and permanent contradictions, and the instability of the health system."
The actions of the UCR against González García will materialize in the midst of the growing confusion around the Russian vaccine Sputnik V, the great commitment of the national government to begin immunizing the population.
It is that the Russian president himself, Vladimir Putin, recognized that this medication still does not have the scientific endorsement for its use in people over 60 years old, who make up the risk group.
"We have come to the instance that the entire Argentine population is in danger due to the lack of clear, precise and truthful information about the National Vaccination Plan against COVID 19, which will soon begin to be implemented in our country," warn the radical deputies in your order.
In this regard, they stated that "if the information that the vaccine was not approved in Russia for people over 60 was already known since the beginning of December, we wonder why this sensitive information was withheld from Argentines."
"After almost 8 months of strict quarantine where the individual freedoms of all citizens were affected through massive restrictions such as the prohibition to circulate, the closure of companies and shops, the brake on commercial flights and the routes of everything In the country, those infected by Covid-19 reached 1,517,046 infected to date, resulting in 41,365 deaths, placing us among the worst countries in the world and in the region in the health management of the pandemic. that I request the request of impeachment to the Minister of Health Gines González García ", highlights the Cano project.
The initiative of the Tucuman goes beyond what was expressed by the head of the party himself, Alfredo Cornejo, who in a joint press conference with Patricia Bullrich (PRO) and Maximiliano Ferraro (CC-ARI) stated that they will require explanations from the Minister of Health, through an interpellation, but they clarified that they did not demand his resignation.