They ask to summon the Minister of Women for the case of the pregnant women in the mountains and Formosa says that the story is false

03/12/2021 16:10

• Clarín.com

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Updated 03/12/2021 16:15

Shortly after learning about the dramatic situation experienced by a group of pregnant women who are hiding in the mountains of Formosa for fear that the police of the province will take their babies from them, senators from Juntos por el Cambio demand to question national government officials to explain what they are doing to help them.

The request for the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, to go to the Upper House;

the Secretary for Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla;

and the Defender of the Rights of Girls, Boys and Adolescents, Marisa Graham, was presented by Senators Pablo Blanco and Luis Naidenoff.

They demand that the officials "report on the actions they are taking in relation to the situation of pregnant women and their babies belonging to indigenous peoples in the Province of Formosa."

The project was also accompanied by senators María Belén Tapia, Laura Rodríguez Machado, Silvia Elías de Pérez, Guadalupe Tagliaferri, Gladys González, Stella Maris Olalla, Pamela Verasay, Silvia del Rosario Giacoppo, Mario Fiad, Martín Lousteau, Claudio Poggi, Alfredo De Angeli and Víctor Zimmermann.

The situation of Human Rights in #Formosa is unsustainable and unjustifiable.

These officials, in addition to the governor @insfran_gildo, are jointly responsible for this atrocity.

They must give explanations in the @SenadoArgentina.

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- Pablo Daniel Blanco (@blancopabloda) March 12, 2021

"In the El Potrillo area, 700 kilometers from Formosa Capital, a group of about 100 pregnant women hides in the middle of the mountain without light or water, sleeping in very precarious nylon tents, made with wooden poles and tied with wire. The reason for their concealment is to avoid the actions of the Police of the province that

violently transfer them to give birth in an isolation center

, where - they denounce - a caesarean section is performed, they are forced to remain in isolation for 14 days without any contact with their newborn children, with the consequent fear of the possibility of losing their babies, "argue the legislators.

They add, with a criticism of the Government, that "a fraction of the political party represented by Governor Gildo Insfrán has built the lie according to which human rights, gender equality and respect for diversity are their work and property. The fright of these young pregnant women and the cruel actions that, undoubtedly, have a political leader, deny it. "

The images of the women and their complaints were known through a report on the

Telenoche

program

, which is broadcast by

El Trece

.

The pregnant women giving the note on Telenoche.

In their request for interpellation, the opposition senators ask themselves "what is the use of a country having a specific Ministry whose motto is' we work for women's rights and diversity, against all forms of inequality and violence, to build a society fairer with everyone, everyone and everyone ', if atrocities

like these occur

? ".

And they warn that "these women persecuted, stigmatized, violated and fearful of what may happen to their lives and that of their babies are living proof that the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity

is nothing more than a facade

. An institution at the service of a story that the anguishing reality of these women from Formosa has uncovered ".

"The situation of Human Rights in Formosa is unsustainable and unjustifiable.

These officials, in addition to Governor Insfrán, are jointly responsible for this atrocity

. They are no longer functionaries that do not function, but rather cardboard institutions with complicit officials by action or omission of this disgusting barbarity in the matter of Human Rights ", close the legislators in their claim.

From the Government of Insfrán they assure that the story is false.

Through the

Formosa News Agency, "

Rosario Buron, a dentist at El Potrillo Hospital, and Isaac Palomo, president of the Ramón Lista Department's Neighborhood Commission for the people, emphatically rejected the Telenoche Investiga report issued by Channel 13 and Todo Noticias (TN), which

falsely presented a group of pregnant women from that area

of western Formosa who were hiding from the police in the mountains so as not to be separated from their babies. "

"We were all very shocked," Burón said, adding: "The report seemed really unusual to me because the El Potrillo hospital works a lot for the well-being of pregnant women and, above all, children."

She also assured that "the rights of these women were never violated" and that "for that reason, many times, respecting their decisions, timely referrals were not made; even when it came to risky pregnancies, which merited another level of complexity of care." .

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