02/21/2021 20:08
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 02/21/2021 20:08
The organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced the Argentine government this Sunday for
"abuses of human rights principles"
in the framework of the "VIP vaccination" scandal.
José Miguel Vivanco, director of the organization's Division for America, wrote on his Twiiter account that "in the face of scandals in Peru and Argentina, governments in the region must establish safeguards to prevent further abuse."
In that sense, he said that "according to human rights principles, the order of access to the vaccine must be transparent and based on public health criteria,
not on ideological affinities or government positions,
" he said.
According to human rights principles, the order of access to the vaccine must be transparent and based on public health criteria, not on ideological affinities or government positions.
Faced with scandals in Peru and Argentina, gobs in the region must establish safeguards to prevent further abuses.
- José Miguel Vivanco (@JMVivancoHRW) February 21, 2021
Both in Argentina and Peru, public officials and those close to power
managed to get vaccinated outside of the protocols and did so in secret.
The episode in our country became known because it was the journalist Horacio Verbitsky who told in his radio program that he had been vaccinated.
He admitted calling "his old friend" the Minister of Health Ginés González García and that he had gone to a special room in the Ministry building to receive the dose.
After González García's resignation,
Carla Vizzotti
took over as minister.
Later, in his social networks he promised that he will work to guarantee "equity in access to vaccines."
The case was repeated in Peru, where at least
487 officials, leaders and relatives of that country were irregularly vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Among them are the former president, Martín Vizcarra and ministers who had to resign, after the provisional president of Peru Francisco Sagasti denounced the list of vaccinated outside the normal circuit and before the health personnel;
in a country with more than 44,000 deaths from COVID
, more than 2.4 million infected, and with serious health problems such as lack of medical oxygen for patients in serious condition.
“I am outraged, furious.
I feel totally disappointed, ”said the Peruvian Head of State.
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