After skipping this new case, the first diligence was to send Criminalistics agents of the National Police to collect evidence and traces, but prosecutor Zully Benítez in conversation with ABC explained that it was impossible because the anticovid storage sector was already “contaminated ”By various people.
The next step that the investigator Benítez completed is to take some testimonies from those who work closely with the two officials who usually have the keys. They pointed out that several people usually enter the place where the immunizers are usually during the vaccination days. Those who are directly responsible are the licensees Illuminated Arrow Y Monica Leon. Flecha is from the Regional Vaccine Warehouse and León is the Regional Head of the EPI. Flecha gave his first version unofficially to police officer Darío Adorno, according to Benítez.
The prosecutor could gather at the moment that Flecha explained his suspicion that the 20 doses from the Moderna platform were not inside the packages that were lifted from the trucks. The transport procedure was two days before the vaccines were not found.
What he also managed to get explained is that normally from the PAI headquarters, biologicals are loaded directly into mobile phones in sealed boxes to take them to the interior of the country. So they are only verified once the immunization will take place. Among those who also declared in the last hours is the Head of the Third Region, Doctor Eduardo Jara.
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Closed circuit camera does not work and the reservoir was not violated
It is another very striking aspect that the Public Ministry confirmed. The equipment inside the conservation site is broken. The camera outside is not pointing directly at the access door, Benítez said. Another piece of information revealed is that the entrance or the padlock where the doses are kept at the required temperature were not forced.
The investigation is still open and more progress would be made this week. At the moment the only crime in sight that could have been committed is that of appropriation, the criminal framework of which establishes a prison sentence of 6 months to 5 years.
The event was reported last Friday at 22:00
Director Jara went to the First Police Station of Cordillera in the city of Caacupé and denounced the loss that they are at the headquarters of the Sanitary Region located within the property of the Hospital of the Cordillera capital. He notified that at 5:00 p.m., Ms. Flecha informed him of the missing.
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Jara ordered the inventory or dispatch of said vaccines so each place where it was distributed was supervised without obtaining positive results on what is still lost. On the possibility of a summary to a person responsible for the storage, there is no information from the authorities of the Ministry of Health. Jara only limited himself to saying that everything is in the investigation stage.
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