03/29/2021 18:15
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Updated 03/29/2021 18:15
Carla Vizzotti endorsed
Alejandro Costa
, one of the officials who respond to her, and that she was promoted when she took office.
The Minister of Health justified that he had personally vaccinated Eduardo Duhalde and his family, in a delivery of injectables at home, by stating that "he received an indication to vaccinate a former President" and added to his environment
to "not throw away the doses "
.
Costa was the one who seconded Vizzotti during the broadcasts of epidemiological daily reports and was involved in the VIP Vaccination scandal as he was the one who went to Duhalde's house to vaccinate the former president, his wife Hilda "Chiche" González de Duhalde, two of his daughters and a personal secretary.
For that reason, their phones are investigated by the Justice.
In the program "
De Acá en Más
" on
Radio Urbana
, the minister said that Costa "received an indication to vaccinate a former President, went and vaccinated him," she explained about the official ratified with a promotion to Undersecretary of Quality, Regulation and Inspection.
"It was not his decision and that
has no impact on his suitability,
commitment and work. He has a long time experience in public health, he has worked in different fields. He is a very dedicated person who
meets all the requirements
to work. at the Ministry, "Vizzotti insisted.
When asked by journalist María O'Donnell about whether the order was given to her by the former minister, Ginés González García, the official said in a dry and unspecific way:
"We already explained everything
.
"
"
Alejandro will continue working in the Ministry
, in the Cabinet and with the team," he reaffirmed.
The interviewer retorted: "But he vaccinated five members of the family." But the minister remained firm: "That is another issue."
"There are the
multidose bottles
.
It was his decision not to throw away the doses,
because otherwise they are thrown away. There are already very specific things that are not as simple as they are reported," the minister concluded.
They point to their calls
More than a month after the scandal surrounding the privileged vaccination program set up on the second floor of the Ministry of Health, federal prosecutor Eduardo Taiano requested the analysis of the communications of former minister González García and four other collaborators investigated by Judge
María Eugenia Capuchetti
, to process the case.
Costa, among them.
Prosecutor Eduardo Taiano asked to analyze the phones of Alejandro Costa and other Ginés collaborators.
Photo Andres D'Elia
The request of Taiano, which according to judicial sources is under study by Capuchetti - he must now decide whether or not to authorize the request -, reaches, in addition to the former Minister of Health,
Lisandro Bonelli
and
Marcelo Guille
-ex collaborators of González García from his environment more intimate, accused along with the sanitarista-, and
Alejandro Collia
, who,
like Costa, is still in charge.
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