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Regarding the medical organizations that have requested his dismissal, Fernando Simón, director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, responded at a press conference this Monday:

"Neither now nor ever, in any activity in which I have participated, has he has done everything well "

, and added:" There is always something that can be improved. "

The medical schools "are perfectly within their right to give their opinion," he pointed out, but he repeated: "What I'm not going to do is get off the boat."

"If I have to be here, I will be;

if it is considered that I should not be, I will not be.

The best thing to do, to know if I have been misrepresented or not, is to listen to the press conference," said the spokesman for Health.

"Yes, I would ask people who want to have an opinion to listen to what I really said,

" he demanded.

Hours before, reports

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, he wanted to make it clear that this position, and even more so now,

"is not a gift" and carries many "troubles".

"I neither want nor do not want. Do not think that this position is a gift, far from it: this position, and more at this moment,

is a position in which one takes all the responsibilities and one takes many troubles"

Simón responded in an interview on TVE when asked if he intends to remain in office after the request of the General Council of Medical Associations (CGCOM).

The CGCOM General Assembly agreed on Saturday to demand his dismissal

"due to his manifest and prolonged incapacity during the evolution of the pandemic"

and because of statements he made on Thursday about infections among health professionals.

Simón has asked to see the press conference to assess what he really said when asked if the decrease in cases detected in this group in the second wave compared to the first was due to a greater availability of health material.

Controversial statements

Specifically, he stressed that "it is not a matter of material only", but of other factors, such as less saturation of hospitals and also

"a learning of professionals during the first wave

, which reduces risks in this second", and the managers of the centers, who "establish better circuits and better protection mechanisms".

"And obviously, better behaviors of the entire population,

including health professionals when they are away from work

, (which) reduces the risk of them becoming infected outside and then carrying the infection to their work environment," he added.

For the director of the CCAES, the CGCOM "has the right" to make this request after these statements, but they have to pass it on to their bosses,

who are the ones who will decide "what they do or not do", because he is still a civil servant.

A position that

"professionally is interesting, but awards, few"

, although he will try to continue doing it "the best he knows", while he occupies it.

Illa defends Simon

Precisely, in his defense, the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, has come out this morning, who has defined him as

"an exemplary public servant."

"Mr. Simón is an exemplary public servant. He has my full support as Minister of Health," he

has settled.

Not all medical colleges have seconded the General Council, so that of Catalonia has been unmarked

"for

fundamental

reasons: legitimate criticism does not justify this request for cessation"

, and also formally, since "it was not part of No agenda and its significance made it enforceable ", according to its president, Jaume Padrós.

In this, the president of Las Palmas, Pedro Cabrera, has agreed that in statements to the Ser has indicated that this matter was not on the agenda, so "it should not have been voted" and, even if it had been so , would not have supported it either:

"He who has not had failures throughout this pandemic, raise his hand,"

has invited

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