More complaints from health workers are added for collection of expired vaccines

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Deputy Aldo Dávila held a second meeting as part of the follow-up on the collection of COVID-19 vaccines from health personnel, where new cases were exposed, however, the Minister of Health, Francisco Coma, and the four deputy ministers presented a letter, in which they excuse themselves for not appearing, since they were summoned at the same time in the Comptroller General of Accounts.

“By virtue of the foregoing, I apologize for not being able to attend the aforementioned summons, since I was summoned to the Comptroller General of Accounts for the discussion of findings on the same date and time, I also inform that the four deputy ministers of the portfolio also They were called for discussion, so I respectfully request rescheduling a date, “said Dávila, reading the letter.

Meeting MSPAS, PDH, Academy of Mayan Languages ​​and Personnel from the Health area.

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— Aldo Dávila (@aldodavila_gt) April 21, 2022

CONFORMATION OF THE DIALOGUE TABLE

The dialogue table was made up of the defender of the Human Rights Ombudsman (PDH), Zulma Calderón; the Translation Specialist of the Academy of Mayan Languages ​​of Guatemala, Francisco Pérez; two workers from the health area of ​​the department of Escuintla, Sandra Mazariegos and Carolina Pineda; the nurse from the Sololá area, Mariflor Castro; the PDH officer, Gabriela Sanabria; the adviser of the PDH office, Luisa Leiva, and the deputy Aldo Dávila.

Dávila mentioned that members of the Academy of Mayan Languages ​​were summoned to address the issue of the campaigns: if they carried out, where, on what date, what languages ​​and the means they used, because he expressed, that part of the responsibility that the vaccines are overcoming is the non-campaign in the mother tongues.

MORE WORKERS JOIN THE COMPLAINT

In addition to the case of Mariflor Castro, who had to pay on April 11, by order of the director of her area, Q288,900, equivalent to 5,025 doses of Sputnik V vaccines, the case of Sandra Mazariegos and Carolina Pineda, workers in the health area of ​​the department of Escuintla, who in addition to them and four other colleagues asked them to pay Q22 thousand each for the expiration of the vaccines in their area.

Mazariegos commented that they were receiving psychological harassment that if the vaccines expired they would have to pay for them; He stated that it was now a reality because the internal audit was presented to his area due to the expiration of the biological Sputnik, by collecting the information despite having supporting documents in which he prevented not blaming them, in the same way they had to pay a sum of Q22 thousand.

“The authorities reported that it is due to loss of the vaccine due, even when the discharge was presented (…) about three weeks ago they informed us that we had to pay Q132 thousand divided into the 6 members that make it up: the area director, the financial manager, two people from the district, Carolina and myself. Due to the disagreement, a revocation was made by the director to re-evaluate, but up to this moment no response has been received, ”said Mazariegos.

Carolina Pineda, one of those affected by the collections, explained that in December she was a district nurse in the municipality of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, in which the influx of vaccinations decreased in December and biologicals were available, but for not have cooling equipment to protect the expired vaccines, due to thawing and expiration date.

“The coordination with the municipality, the private initiative, was really made, but unfortunately the influx dropped too much, when the audit report was made, a comparison of months was shown in which the decrease in influx is noticeable, and now the biologists want to charge us , we extend schedules, we look for strategies, we can’t force people to get vaccinated, “added Pineda.