Daniel Santoro
05/25/2021 18:12
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/25/2021 6:12 PM
Doubts are growing
about the mysterious shipment of at least
ten Sputnik V vaccines to the El Calafate hospital on January 23
from the Posadas de Haedo hospital.
Until now, it was not specified who was immunized at that first moment of the vaccination campaign.
Deputy Graciela Ocaña
delivered documents
to Judge María Eugenia Capuchetti that prove the shipment in the cockpit of an Aerolineas Argentinas flight and
asked to identify who was vaccinated
.
Ocaña suspects that, in reality, they were for
Kirchnerist
"friends of power"
and that is why, until now, their names have been hidden.
"I suspect that they
set up a VIP vaccination program in El Calafate
, just as they did at the Posadas, or at the Ministry of Health at the Cruce hospital (Florencio Varela)," Ocaña told
Clarín.
The investigation into the route of these vaccines had
several incidents
.
First, the Santa Cruz government of Alicia Kirchner clarified that it
did not receive them
and that they were for the SAMIC hospital in El Calafate, which depends on the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
Then, Ocaña asked Health with a request for access to public information and the national director of Communicable diseases, Arturo Ferraud, replied that “from the records
of this Ministry it does not appear that shipments of vaccines against COVID-19 have been made to SAMIC Hospital of El Calafate
”.
It is a half truth, the vaccines went
from the Posadas
–which also depends on that ministry- to the El Calafate hospital.
In response to a request for information from Ocaña, Health Minister Carla Vizzotti said that “as it appears from the embedded file, on Friday afternoon, January 22, the SAMIC Hospital of El Calafate requested by telephone the sending of
a supplementary supply for the vaccination campaign
”.
According to the authorities of the El Calafate hospital, "he was
with itinerant health workers, recruits, projection of vaccination to older adults and strategic personnel
, which is why he requested the reinforcement," added Vizzotti.
Ocaña said that
the famous "embedded file"
was never sent to him
and said that it seems suspicious that they have asked for
"very few doses"
to immunize medical and strategic personnel.
At that time,
only “medical or strategic personnel” were vaccinated
because they were the first consignments of Russian vaccines arriving in the country.
In May, the number of deaths from the coronavirus reached more than 70 thousand people in Argentina and enough vaccines have not yet arrived.
Vizzotti he added in reply to Deputies that these vaccines were "as
complementary shipping dose
, clarifying that it
is customary
exchange of inputs among hospitals within the national orbit, especially in an emergency context like the present".
For example, Vizzotti affirmed, “From the SAMIC Pediatric Hospital" Prof. Dr. Juan P. Garrahan "they collaborated with
the reading of tomographies and magnetic resonances
carried out at the El Calafate High Complexity Hospital, SAMIC because it was not counted with personnel to analyze the images produced ”.
However, Ocaña analyzed in a database the exchanges between hospitals in the national state of those months and
there are no vaccines
, but other types of supplies or services.
Regarding the name of those vaccinated, the current Minister of Health said that she should
“refer to the response made in the Judicial Office
that is processing in case No. 714/21 entitled“ NN s / abuse of authority and violation of the duties of public official "from the registry of the National Court for Criminal and Federal Correctional Matters N ° 5, in charge of Dr. María Eugenia Capuchetti, Secretariat N ° 9".
This case, opened by an Ocaña complaint based on
an investigation by TN
, is being investigated by the prosecutor Eduardo Taiano.
There are more than
15 complaints of vaccinations without respecting the protocols or waiting lists.
The
Ginés Gonzalez García resigned from the Health Ministry on February 22 after
Clarín
revealed the existence of a VIP Vaccination in his portfolio and in the Posadas hospital.
In those venues, for example, the deputy and senator of the Frente de Todos Eduardo Valdés and Jorge Taiana, respectively, the journalist K and the president with use of CELS license, Horacio Verbitsky, were vaccinated.
The Attorney General of the Treasury, Carlos Zannini, and his wife were other among those vaccinated in a privileged way.
After the resignation of Ginés, Vizzoti assumed ownership of the portfolio.
Ocaña was also
struck by the rise of the director of the El Calafate hospital and militant K, Verónica De Cristófaro
, at a time when the mysterious vaccines arrived.
Since April 1, De Cristófaro, who was president of the Administration Council of the SAMIC Hospital in El Calafate,
was formally appointed head of the Equity Secretariat of the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
Ocaña recalled that the government of Alicia Kirchner said that it had "nothing to do with that shipment" and that
"someone from the El Calafate hospital"
received the ten doses, transported in a portable refrigerator in the pilots' cabin, but not yet. is identified.
The El Calafate hospital authorities reported that
they applied the 10 vaccines to health personnel
, so Ocaña requested that they "identify
who applied them, where and who received them
."
"We demand to know who vaccinated because Argentines have the right to know what they did with such
a scarce and necessary good as vaccines,
" added the former Minister of Health.
Ocaña made the first complaint about this case and then made several extensions.
The head of the Office of Administrative Investigations (PIA), Sergio Rodríguez, asked Salud to expand the summary on this case, as reported by this newspaper.
In his request, he asked "
why was the remaining critical stock not used
and if the distribution of doses between hospitals is legitimate and not a violation of the criteria used for its original distribution."
In his original complaint, Ocaña said that the vaccines left
on Friday, January 23, at 08:40
, on a commercial flight of Aerolineas Argentinas that departed from the Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Ezeiza to the El Calafate International Airport.
The flight's departure
was delayed
by an emergency call from the Government.
According to Ocaña, Gustavo Javier Bahut, head of monitoring at the Prof. Alejandro Posadas National Hospital, then
delivered the refrigerator with the vaccines to the pilots
.
In principle, it was believed that there were 60 and not 10 doses.
The indication that would have been made, said Ocaña, "in order not to raise suspicions, was that the conservator where the doses of the vaccine were kept had to go
through the scanner intended for the control of the crew
" and not the passengers.
Sources from the Airport Security Police confirmed to
Clarín
that "the routine control was complied with, the doses were scanned."
On the other hand, from the PSA they clarified that it is force "does not delay flights because it is not the competent authority for it."
In a statement, the Ministry of Health of the Nation confirmed the shipment through Airlines of “10 (ten) doses composed of 2 (two) multidose vials, of five doses each, of Sputnik V vaccines, component 1,
number of lot 486081120R
".
The complaint, which is now under investigation, maintains that PSA agents "would have introduced the vaccines through the scanner and the conservator would have
given them to the commander of the aircraft
with the surname Dono for transport."
Santa Cruz had other complaints for privilege vaccinations. In the cities of Piedrabuena and Gregores, for example, deputies, mayors and councilors were vaccinated out of protocol. Now
the Justice must confirm
who was vaccinated with these doses.
