The former Minister of Health, Ginés González García, assured that he felt “very moved” during the tribute they made this Monday in his honor and He confirmed that during his administration “there was no vaccine” against the coronavirus that “was not correctly” inoculated against Covid-19.
“I am very moved by what happened yesterday. It is not common for all ministers to pay tribute. It was very emotional and the applause was very long. The recognition of peers is very important,” said González García in statements to La Red radio.
This Monday, health ministers from various provinces paid tribute to González García on the 20th anniversary of the implementation of health policies of his authorship, when the country was emerging from the 2001 crisis, and within the framework of the Federal Health Council (Cofesa). .
The recognition was led by the head of the health portfolio, Carla Vizzottiin the Hall of Original Peoples of the Casa Rosada.
“At a critical moment like the pandemic, we worked together and made consensus policies”
“I am proud that with the Ministers of Health of all the Argentine provinces we have worked together in a country where there is always confrontation and fights. At a critical moment like the pandemic, we worked together and made consensus policies,” the doctor stressed. sanitarian.
When consulted about his departure from the Health portfolioafter complaints about irregularities in the vaccination of some officials and personalities, González García assured that it was an issue with “many more media consequences” than judicial ones.
“There was no vaccinated person who was not correctly vaccinated or was instructed in the reasons why a dose had to be received. A mess was made that seemed like something else”evaluated.
In that sense, He referred to the case of journalist Horacio Vertbisky and recalled that “he was 79 years old” and the country had already begun “with those over 60” and insisted that “there was no person who has changed their order of priority.”
“I explained one by one the situation of the 70 vaccinated. I did it in writing to the judge. They all had a reason and there was a resolution that endorsed that they were inoculated due to age or because they were strategic personnel or they were health personnel or had a pathology pre-existing,” he explained.
Likewise, considered that his departure from the Ministry of Health at the beginning of 2021 “was hasty”, and considered that if he had had the opportunity “to explain case by case” the situation would have been “a racket that lasted two or three days.”
“There was no vaccinated person who was not correctly vaccinated or was instructed in the reasons why a dose had to be received. A mess was made that seemed like something else”
“Vizzotti did well to continue. You cannot leave an empty Ministry. I told him to stay if the opportunity arose because otherwise it would have been a disaster for the country,” he said.
On the other hand, the doctor maintained that “the pandemic was a tragedy”, but that at the same time “nobody says what we avoided or that less impact was achieved”.
“There was political speculation regarding vaccines, the Pfizer laboratory itself came out to deny it. No country did business with so many suppliers,” he remarked.
And he reflected that although the development of vaccines in a very short period of time was “a scientific feat”, it became “a failure because the northern hemisphere was stocked and the south had practically no doses.”
