04/02/2021 14:03
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 04/02/2021 2:13 PM
The Ministry of Health of the province of Buenos Aires reported that the vaccination campaign against the coronavirus would not stop during Holy Week.
However, the Municipality of
Chacabuco denounced that
for three weeks he has not received a dose
of vaccines.
The mayor of that Buenos Aires town,
Víctor Aiola
, said that they have
"vaccinated with two doses to 3% of the population,"
and that their claim is shared with other mayors in the interior.
"We are concerned," he said.
According to reports from Chacabuco, of its 55 thousand inhabitants, 5,197 people were vaccinated with one dose, which represents 14% of the population;
while 1,145 inhabitants received two doses,
3% of the total
.
Currently, Chacabuco suffers from a hundred active cases of covid-19.
Aiola explained: "We have seen a
growth in cases in
recent days
. We are about 14 days behind what happens in the AMBA."
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the municipality registered 3,075 infections and 60 deaths.
In dialogue with
Clarín
, Aiola pointed out that there are
"first and second class citizens"
when it comes to vaccinating.
In the first place, because - he revealed - from the province of Buenos Aires they told him that "they are prioritizing the suburbs."
Secondly, because there are inhabitants of the Chacabuco district who live in the towns of Rawson, O'Higgins, Castilla and Los Angeles, which are about 50 or 80 kilometers from the health posts and have no way of mobilizing if their turn.
Russian Sputnik V vaccines are received by the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti, at the Ezeiza airport.
Photo Rafael Mario Quinteros.
"The inhabitants of the localities are the oldest and we feel between a rock and a hard place in the face of people's complaints. The Province
does not allow the Municipality to move vaccines
to approach the homes of these neighbors. PAMI can go to vaccinate; we cannot. We see that vaccines do not reach the elderly, "denounced Aiola.
On the other hand, he reported that residents in nursing homes in the towns of Rawson and Castilla are not vaccinated.
"And ten days ago there was a great contagion by which
seven grandparents died
," said the mayor.
Aiola also presented a claim that he made before the Province: to be able to use the municipal vaccination system.
"If all you have municipalities vaccination teams who can do the job, there is
no need to put a provincial post and not let participate to the municipality. We do not know who they
are vaccinated or when we see it
from the
outside. One is made
political use of the situation,
"said Aiola, leader of the Radical Civic Union.
"At the rate of vaccination that we come,
we are going to take another year to vaccinate,
" said the official, who also said that the residents approach the Municipality to find out why they were not inoculated yet.
And he added: "There are young adults vaccinated and we have older adults waiting for the vaccine."
The mayor of Chacabuco summoned his peers to jointly expose this situation, which he assured is repeated in more than one Buenos Aires municipality: "The mayors are
looking at us with the ñata against the glass
, we want to help and participate in the vaccination, we want to be responsible and to know who they are vaccinating in our municipalities. "
Regarding communication with the provincial and national governments, Aiola said that they worked "together throughout the pandemic," but that
now they are not listening
.
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