The Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires confirmed this week the accusation against the former health official of Mauricio Macri’s government for his absence win batch of 600 thousand dTap vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough.
“They were defeated in a room of the Refrigerator Oneto y Ciaunder contract with the Ministry of Health, and was received purchased for 6,610,306 to adhere to the National Vaccination Calendar for the year 2017,” reveals the decision.
The accused was the head of the Directorate of Control of Chronic Diseases (DICEI) between November 2016 and January 2018, Susana Del Valle Devoto. But the protest also involved other officials, such as the former Health Ministers of the Government of Mauricio Macri, Jorge Lemus and Adolfo Rubinstein, and the former Minister of Social Development Carolina Stanley.
The ruling of that Chamber was confirmed, first of all, by Judge Sebastián Casanello, who prosecuted Del Valle Devoto for “She is not fulfilling her duties as a public official by omitting the obligations under his responsibility regarding the handling of the said doses.”
Crime of omission
The chambermaids Pablo Bertuzzi and Mariano Llorens observed that the officer committed “crimes of negligence, which is a characteristic of the fact that the normal action is simply a failure to do what the legal system orders.”
Del Valle Devoto, as stated in the ruling and reported by the group Noticias Argentinas, “It was his responsibility to ensure that the processes of acquisition, distribution and storage of the materials intended for the vaccination plans worked properly and, however, he did not do that.”
With the accusation, an embargo was ordered on his assets and money for five million pesos, which was claimed by the defense. However, the Chamber also confirmed this measure and recalled that the waste vaccines “were obtained for the value of six million six hundred ten thousand three hundred six American dollars ($6,610,306.00).
The excuses then
In October 2020, the Anti-Corruption Office (OA) denounced officials from Macri’s Health region after finding 600,000 doses of expired vaccines at National Customs.
In August of that year, The former minister Ginés González García had denied that four million doses of expired vaccines had been found – bought during the Cambiemos administration – in a refrigerator in the Buenos Aires area of Constitución for a total cost of 1,400 million pesos.
His predecessor, Adolfo Rubinstein, said: “There were three and a half million, not four, and this is not a study that Ginés (González García, the current Minister of Health) did, it is a study that we did during our administration, it is. in May 2019.” In addition, he said they were mostly flu shots and “The rest was because the winter of 2017 was very mild”.
Act of Justice
The progress of the legal case, and the confirmation of the charge happened these days, about the 600 thousand vaccinations triple bacteriala, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough and is administered to pregnant women and children under 11 years of age, according to the Immunization Schedule. As mentioned The discovery, The frequency of the three diseases increased in 2019 due to the lack of vaccination of the population the year before.
2024-05-10 16:59:05
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