The Ministry of Health of the Nation presented its appeal against the precautionary measure on Friday which orders to suspend the promotion of vaccination against the coronavirus in infants and minors up to 16 years and also challenged the federal judge of Mar del Plata Alfredo López to remove him from the case after the resolution he issued.
The judicial novelty was officially confirmed, after the extraordinary meeting of the Federal Health Council led by the Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti. In the conclave, the participating health authorities acknowledged that the decision of the local magistrate “it has no technical basis or scientific rigour”.
“The presentation caused the intervening judge to challenge the having publicly expressed his opinion on the outstanding issues in the present casewhich violates the guarantee of impartiality that he must respect in his position,” they explained from Vizzotti’s portfolio, through a statement.
Furthermore, the ministry confided that in the Cofesa meeting it was recalled that Judge López “has already issued precautionary measures that have suspended public health policies, such as the law on voluntary termination of pregnancy and the health pass”. “In all cases, these measures were reversed by the Mar del Plata Court of Appeal,” they noted.
The authorities recalled that the vaccines applied in Argentina have scientific evidence of safety and efficacy and have been authorized by regulatory agencies, international organizations and the National Administration of Medicines, Foods and Medical Technologies (Anmat). In addition, they have the approval of the National Immunization Commission and the Argentine Pediatric Society. They also stressed that vaccines are the quintessential element intended to protect the health of the population in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.
On Wednesday, López issued the groundbreaking interim measure after an amparo class action requested by city attorney Julio Razona and said it would remain in effect throughout the country “until implementation of the necessary measures to ensure access to information relating to the effects of the inoculation of those vaccines against Covid-19”. The judge justified the sentence by accusing the National Ministry of Health of not providing “sufficient information” on the vaccines it distributes within the country ” to approve current constitutional and legal standards”.
“It is clear in my opinion that the methodology through which information on the products to be inoculated is accessed according to the particular state of health of each minor is not adequate to the degree of gravity of the multiple consequences that the request can have. the various formulations approved, ”he insisted in his opinion.
Despite this sentence, minors continue to be vaccinated in vaccination clinics today, since no judicial decision has the power to suspend what is not mandatory (adherence to the immunization campaign is voluntary and, in the case of children, responsibility is relegated to own parents).
The only thing that alters the magistrate’s resolution is that, from now on, before receiving the vaccine, parents must receive information from the health personnel themselves in which they warn of the alleged adverse effects that the inoculation could generate in childhood . The judge also ordered vaccination operators to detail to families the functioning of the reparation fund that the National Executive created in July last year.
