The president of Dominican Medical College, Senén Caba affirmed that the negotiators sent by the Dominican government to negotiate the contracts for the acquisition of vaccines against COVID-19 “They were scammed” by the big monopolies that used, he said, “all kinds of strategies, clearly unethical, to pressure governments like the Dominican to access their disadvantageous conditions”.
“Wanting to take advantage (the government) tried to negotiate, He sent negotiators who, believing that they were assuming a sagacious attitude, of advantage, were cheatedbecause that is the reality: they were scammed, “said the leader of the Dominican doctors’ union.
He specified that the Dominican Medical Association supports any judicial action that the State initiates against these organisms.
“We support any action that goes in the direction of suing those large international consortiums,” he reiterated and alluded in particular to the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, which has even refused to exchange vaccines for other drugs that it never sent to the Dominican Republic, a country that paid on time.
Caba pointed out that at that time the governments were between a rock and a hard place and gave in to the conditions imposed by the pharmaceutical companies due to the urgency of effectively addressing the health crisis, although in the end it was China and its vaccines that arrived en masse
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