03/08/2021 19:29
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/08/2021 19:29
The controversy surrounding the VIP vaccination of Mar del Plata, which included the inoculation of officials, trade unionists and K militants, will add a new chapter this Tuesday.
At 10 in the morning, the Secretary of Health of the municipality of General Pueyrredón,
Viviana Bernabei
, will appear as a witness at the 10th Prosecutor's Office for Economic Crimes, where they required her presence to learn about the district immunization plan that was under suspicion.
"As we do not have the vaccination in our charge, we do not have access to the records," Bernabei explained to
Clarín
on Monday
.
"We are concerned about eventual vaccinators, because what we receive from people are requests for responses to situations such as the non-signing of the vaccination certificate. And in reality no one knows for sure the veracity of that information," he said. the secretary of the administration headed by Mayor Guillermo Montenegro, from Together for Change.
As the official assured, the vaccination operation in Mar del Plata is in charge of the provincial government, as in the rest of the Buenos Aires territory.
In fact,
Marcelo Gastón Vargas
, the 50-year-old executive director of Health Region VIII, which comprises the district, was one of those immunized: he
received the second dose on February 5.
The list of those vaccinated had been revealed by the Mar del Plata site El Observador.
In the list of beneficiaries investigated by the local Justice -a complaint initiated by the prosecutor Javier Pettigiani-, there are, as this newspaper published over the weekend, at least
10 local political leaders,
under 70 years of age and who in their most were registered as "health personnel".
Among them, Fernando Mogni, director of the Local Management Unit of the PAMI of Mar del Plata, 39;
Santiago González, 53, regional director of the Buenos Aires social work IOMA;
Milagros Bensa, 18, from the local branch of the La Cámpora group;
Tobías Balcedo, 19 years old, and Milagros Ramírez Armani, 21 years old, and Facundo "Apache" Villalba, representative of ATE and CTA, 32 years old.
According to Bernabei, when the provincial authorities began to diagram the logistics of the district operation
, the opening of "vaccination places in non-health centers" was prioritized.
"We initially offered eight positions: two sports centers, a community integration center and five health centers, with double entry, and
we never received an answer for that,"
the official explained.
In fact, the Ministry of Health began to receive
complaints from people from Mar del Plata whose certificates were not signed
after the administration of the vaccine.
There is also the concern of people who explained that they registered to receive the inoculation and in the records they already appear as vaccinated.
Until this Sunday, according to official information,
20,000 people
had been inoculated in General Pueyrredón
.
"Our greatest concern is
that the vaccination campaign for the elderly in March and April will accelerate.
We are very low," Bernabei told this newspaper.
The scandal over VIP vaccines had its first chapter in the second half of February, after
Clarín's
revelation
about the system mounted on the second floor of the Ministry of Health that ended with the departure of Ginés González García and the greatest political crisis of the government of Alberto Fernández.
The benefits from the vaccination plan were later extended to other municipalities.
One of them Saint Nicholas, the payments of the former minister and his nephew
Lisandro Bonelli
, who also had to leave the ministry when it was learned that he was managing
the health vaccination program at
piacere
.
The magnifying glass has now moved to Mar del Plata: Justice wants to know how and with what criteria leaders who are friends of power were immunized.
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