He will attend “at his own request”, although after the political groups in the opposition of the Asturian Parliament have requested his appearance in the register. The Minister of Health, Pablo Fernández, announced yesterday that it requested to appear before the General Board to “report on the current situation of the management of the pandemic including the vaccination plan.” And it is there, in the included vaccination plan, where the problem lies. Because the announcement from the Principality Health Service (Sespa) that it will be included within the priority groups to vaccinate health managers in this first phase has sparked the controversy.
For all groups in opposition, PP, Ciudadanos, Podemos, Foro, IU and Vox, that decision “has no justification” and, in a different tone and measure, all demand “explanations” and put an end to “the opacity of the vaccination plan.” Some, like Foro, demand that not only the counselor give explanations, but also the President of the Asturian Executive, Adrián Barbón. “They must give explanations of the 2,965 doses without a clear recipient,” said his spokesman, Adrián Pumares. Others, like Vox, demand, directly, “the resignation of the Minister of Health.”
The reasons for the anger jumped last week. The fact that the pharmaceutical company Pfizer cut its weekly supply to Spain, meant that Asturias, like the rest of the communities, received fewer vials. With that braking, the Sespa, which has the slogan of the vaccination plan to “vaccinate as many people as possible in the shortest time possible”, found that it had to suspend the inoculation of the first doses to the health workers, to guarantee the second to those who had already received the first. A situation that led unions, especially to Usipa y Sicepa, to criticize “the vaccination of people who are not in the front line of care.” The medical and nursing unions, Simpa and Satse, for their part, understand that “all the people who are in the health system” must be protected.
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From there, We can, training that was the first to speak of “3,000 unclear vaccines”, Forum and PP they demanded “transparency in the vaccination plan”, while they charged against the “supposed vaccination of managers and those released”.
A situation that the Sespa manager herself confirmed: “The protocol of the Ministry of Health is being complied with and the managerial staff of the health areas are being vaccinated, because they have not been in offices, but on the front line.” He also justified the vaccination of those released “because if the epidemiological situation requires it, they will go back to work, as they did in other moments of the pandemic.”
Review of each case
Saavedra also made it clear that the Principality has “its own vaccination registry, in addition to the ministry,” and announced that “each vaccine will be reviewed.”
Something that his budget ally asks the PSOE. He IU coordinator, Ovidio Zapico, understands that “we are seeing throughout the Spanish State that there is a lot of cheek and we do not want that to happen here”, so he asks the Minister of Health to “give explanations.”
Some that are also requested by the spokeswoman for Citizens, Susana Fernández, who sees “intolerable and irresponsible that politicians skip the vaccination protocol and take advantage of their position to obtain the vaccine before it is supplied to health personnel or chronic patients and risk groups.”
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