The application of a third vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech against Covid-19 to the president of Las Condes Clinic (CLC), Alejandro Gil Gómez (73) It provoked a wave of criticism and forced the government to file a complaint with the Eastern Metropolitan Region Prosecutor’s Office for the alleged crime of misappropriation. In the action, the Undersecretaries for Crime Prevention and Health, headed by Katherine Martorell and Paula Daza, accused that the doses delivered to the private medical facility do not empower the owner of the clinic to use them at their own discretion or whim for personal purposes.
To this process is added the sanitary summary of the Seremi de Salud, whose conclusions could lead to more criminal actions. The administration of the clinic carries out an investigation with absolute reserve and in the next few days, Alejandro Gil himself will file a complaint with the Ministry of Health for the loss of vaccines, as they suspect that there were irregularities in the vaccination center.
In charge of the audit is the general manager Jerónimo García, who is one of Gil’s closest men at CLC. The executive explained that “A series of irregularities have been found in relation to the elimination of the vaccines and the information will be made available to the Ministry for it to carry out the respective investigation.”
The first indication that raised suspicions at Clínica Las Condes was the certificate of elimination of vaccines that was carried out on July 2, 2021 in one of her shifts by the former head of CLC Outpatient Services, Leticia Ortiz. That day, according to the document, the professional eliminated four vaccines that came from Lot EY0585 from Pfizer-BioNTech.
“There are vaccines prepared at the end of the shift and they are eliminated due to loss of stability,” recorded the minutes to which La Tercera had access. According to the letter, signed by Ortiz, said doses expired on October 31, 2021 and the loss of stability refers to changes in temperature.
From CLC they explained that Leticia Ortiz presented her resignation before a notary public and signed on Tuesday, July 6, becoming effective the following day. His departure took place three days after Gil came accompanied by the Nursing manager, Andrea Gaete to the CLC vaccination center to demand to be vaccinated despite already having two doses of Sinovac. This after his treating doctor, the cardiologist Héctor Ducci, recommended a new immunization.
In the medical compound they believe that the vaccines that appear in the official’s report would not have been eliminated, but ended up being applied to people who were not at the time authorized to receive the doses according to the schedule established by the Ministry of Health. At the same time, they believe that the vaccines could be marketed to VIP patients, among whom would be close to the medical staff, violating the control system established by the authority.
Faced with doubts, the company decided to carry out an audit that is ongoing and although they point suspicions to the person in charge of the vaccination, they do not rule out that there are other officials and doctors involved in the alleged violation of the protocols.
For Clínica Las Condes, the Ministry of Health is not monitoring the vaccines that appear as eliminated in the registries. The portfolio headed by Enrique Paris declined to comment on this article, arguing that “there is an ongoing investigation.”
According to people close to the businessman, this new onslaught by CLC is classified as a kind of “counterattack”, after being the subject of numerous criticisms for the vaccine that was supplied in the medical facility that he presides over and whose controlling shareholder is his partner: Cecilia Karlezi Solari through Grupo Auguri.
However, a nurse who requests that her name be reserved and who is part of the inoculation team said that it is practically impossible to violate the vaccination system due to the controls imposed by the health authority.
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines come in a six-dose vial. The same source consulted pointed out that by regulation, when a bottle is opened in the morning, all the doses must be applied during the day and if at the end of the day there are still some doses, they must be eliminated.
However, in order not to lose them, on more than one occasion the nurses had to go out to look for people to inoculate at the moment in the private health facility. They asked: “Hello. Did you get vaccinated ?; How old are you?”. The goal was to avoid missing doses and many times they succeeded, said the same source. However, on other occasions it was not like that, because they could not find people in the enclosure, because they finished after 7:00 p.m.
The same sources consulted indicated that in February, when the vaccination process began at Clínica Las Condes, the doses were guarded by guards. Afterwards, the TENS and nurses were transferred to the vaccination center, which is administered under lock and key. Both at the beginning and at the end of the day, the team carries out an inventory, the records of which remain in digital format in an Excel spreadsheet that is sent to the Ministry of Health.
His arrival at CLC marked a break in the relationship with the medical staff and in September 2020 his disagreements ended in court with a conflict over the change in the lease contracts. Today, Gil is involved in another controversy, and this time with the health authority, upon receiving a third dose of inoculation against Covid.
The departure of the head of Outpatient Services added to the list of doctors who have been fired and others who decided to leave the institution in recent months, such as Tomás Regueira, former head of the clinic’s Intensive Care Unit; Luis Herrada, former medical director; Roberto Postigo, spinal traumatologist, and Andrés Larach, surgeon and specialist in the digestive system. They are joined by at least four more doctors who left during the last week.
At the command of the institution, he has thrown himself against his former managers, accusing them of unfair administration and causing large losses due to the care of patients from Fonasa in “excess” during the pandemic.
In his onslaught against former CLC managers (Jaime Hagel Y Fredy Jacial), Clínica Las Condes is represented by the lawyer Marcelo Sanfeliú. He is a litigant who has experience in highly complex litigation and, according to what emerged, will be in charge of defending Gil against the complaint filed by the government for misappropriation before the Public Ministry.
However, Gil’s character is also seen in other battles that remain open. One of them is the one he launched against the newspaper La Segunda, when on March 16 he filed a complaint for the publication of an article entitled: “CLC threatens not to attend to Fonasa patients.” The criminal action that is processed in the 4th Guarantee Court of Santiago is sponsored by the criminal lawyer Cristián Muga, who has extensive experience in trials of public connotation.
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