03/09/2021 9:02 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/09/2021 9:14 AM
In the midst of the controversy unleashed in Corrientes after the traffic accident in which it was discovered that the Minister of Health of the province was transferring 900 doses of vaccines against the coronavirus, the provincial government justified it by ensuring that
"it is common" and "for a matter of cost
.
"
"It will be strange for you, but the officials here make transfers,
" said the Minister of Government, Carlos Vignolo, trying to explain why Ricardo Cardozo was carrying vaccines in his private truck at the time of suffering a decompensation on the way to Goya.
And he added in statements to
A24
: "The usual thing is to send them to the logistics companies, but here it is common for our officials to make transfers because they are in charge of the vaccines."
The Corrientes Health Minister was traveling to Goya to, according to the Government, meet with the crisis committee of those cities and took advantage of the transfer to take the vaccines that had already been destined for that town.
The Corrientes Health Minister's van in which he transported Covid vaccines.
"When asked if it is usual, we want to comment that usually, although not always, when members of the crisis committee move to the interior
, these vaccines are sometimes loaded taking advantage of the transfer,
" he insisted.
In addition, and in another interview with
Radio Continental
, the official said that the province works with the "distribution protocol of a company, but (Cardozo) is the highest health authority and coordinator of the provincial crisis committee and made the decision with the idea to take them early. "
"There is no irregularity. One can say if he should take it or not, but we have full confidence because he is the head of the vaccines. The vaccines were in the best hands and unfortunately this happened," said Vignolo.
The governor of Corrientes Gustavo Valdés together with the Minister of Health, Ricardo Cardozo.
Cardozo suffered a cardiac decompensation while traveling to Goya that caused him to have a traffic accident "
without physical consequences
."
When they arrived to assist him, they found the two boxes with 900 doses of vaccines against the coronavirus.
The official was circulating along Avenida Maipú of the provincial capital towards the route, to go to Goya, a city in which hours before an Epidemiology team had arrived by plane to collaborate with the Crisis Committee, in an attempt to control a local outbreak. of Covid-19.
The first official justification had come through a government statement headed by the radical Gustavo Valdés, who explained that "Cardozo personally transferred the vaccines destined for Goya on the occasion within the framework of the Vaccination Plan against Covid-19 that the Province carries out in the provincial interior ".
And they added that he was traveling to Goya "to strengthen the Vaccination Plan."
Always according to the information released by the Government, Cardozo suffered a cardiac decompensation that caused him to have a traffic accident "without physical consequences."
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