06/14/2021 5:56 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 06/14/2021 5:56 PM
The vaccination against the coronavirus of the daughter of former president Evo Morales, Evaliz Morales Alvarado, outside the calendar established by the Bolivian Executive, generated controversy and criticism, in addition to a government announcement of an investigation.
The verifiers Chequea Bolivia and Bolivia Verifica
corroborated the veracity of a vaccination certificate by Evaliz Morales
that was disseminated on social networks and which indicates that the young woman, 26, was immunized in a clinic of the State Bank of Health.
The companies scanned the QR code on the certificate to verify that Morales Alvarado's vaccination record
does appear in the National Health Information System.
The young woman received the first dose of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine on May 24, the same day as President Luis Arce,
although in a different health center.
As a lawyer, last January it was learned that Morales Alvarado
was hired at the State Attorney General's Office
, an institution under the command of former Evo Morales defense attorney, Wilfredo Chávez.
When Morales' daughter was vaccinated, the government immunization plan
reached over 50 and journalists
, having previously vaccinated front-line health personnel and people with underlying diseases.
The deputy minister of Promotion, Epidemiological Surveillance and Traditional Medicine, María Renee Castro, did not want to say
"if
the record corroborated by the verifiers
is real or not,
claiming that the" confidentiality "of each person is maintained, but assured that the Supervisory Authority of the Short-Term Social Security investigates the matter.
"We take absolutely all citizens in the same way,
" Castro declared at a press conference.
The authority indicated that the social security funds must comply with the "schedule" and the vaccination plan established by the Government and that, "if they do not do so, logically the authority in charge of social security
has all the power to sanction" .
critics
The head of the ruling party in the Senate, Luis Adolfo Flores, told the media that if there were breaches in Morales Alvarado's case,
"the vaccination actors"
are the ones who have to say what procedures or sanctions should be followed.
For Flores, the sanctions should be
"for those who vaccinate"
, since they are "responsible and have specific instructions" from the health authorities.
In a video on Facebook, deputy Luisa Nayar, from the opposition Citizen Community,
described as "outrageous"
that Morales Alvarado was vaccinated early "for the simple fact" of being the daughter of the ex-president, while the elderly and other people must do long lines to access doses.
"I am the same age as Miss Evaliz and I have not been using my position to benefit from the vaccine. We
must be respectful, we
must privilege those who correspond according to the vaccination plan," said the legislator, who also recalled that she does a few days it became known that Morales Alvarado's mother has a diplomatic post.
Last March, the Government
began investigations
into alleged irregular vaccinations against covid-19 in four of the nine regions of people who have not yet been immunized.
The authorities then announced proceedings against the personnel in charge of those vaccinations and also
those who benefited from the drugs before their time.
In Bolivia so far 524,899 people have been immunized with the two required doses, while 1,544,730 received the first.
Source: EFE
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