Covid-19 in Ecuador: favoritism in vaccination, the Minister of Health resigns
In Ecuador, the prosecution wants to know if people who are not normally yet entitled to vaccinations have benefited from privileges, in a country where only 1% of the population has already been vaccinated.
The Minister of Health, Rodolfo Farfan, has just resigned after only three weeks of exercise, because he too was cited in the investigation of the prosecution.
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The Ecuadorian public prosecutor's office is looking for lists of people who have been vaccinated when they were not yet entitled to it.
In a country where the vaccination campaign is very late, suspicions of vaccine favoritism have just provoked the resignation of a new Minister of Health.
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With our correspondent in Quito
,
Eric Samson
Where are the lists of people vaccinated in Ecuador?
According to the prosecution which searched the premises of the Ministry of Health, "
a detailed register exists
" but this information was "
hidden
" by the ministry which would have submitted only "
incomplete
"
lists
.
The prosecution wants to know in particular if people who are not normally entitled to it have benefited from privileges to be vaccinated.
This is the case, for example, of the owner of a radio station, a sports official and the mother of the Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos, who resigned less than a month ago and immediately left the country. for Miami.
Confidential medical information
The minister who replaced him Rodolfo Farfan has in turn resigned after only three weeks, because he too was cited in the prosecution's investigation.
He had stood out by refusing to make public the lists of people vaccinated for reasons of medical confidentiality.
Already criticized for the slowness of the vaccination campaign which only affected less than 1% of the population, barely 120,000 people, the Presidency of the Republic hastened to take the lead and confirm that the chief state, his wife and 11 of his relatives and bodyguards were vaccinated, officially for national security reasons.
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To read: Ecuador: an application to follow the progress of Covid-19 among Amazonian Indians
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