Kayra Harding files a complaint with the Public Ministry for the case of alleged sterilizations in Bocas del Toro

This Thursday morning, the deputy Kayra Harding, filed a complaint with the Public Ministry under a criminis news for the alleged non-consensual sterilizations that are being carried out in Bocas del Toro and Chiriquí.

“Today I come here this morning to present a criminis news item, that’s why I’m explaining it to you, if I know of an event which could become a criminal or criminal act, I have to come and report it. As I found out about it two days, I come to present it to the Attorney General so that he can carry out the pertinent investigations. That our women are sterilized without their consent is a serious act, because it violates our human rights, so in the face of that fact I come to present this,” he commented the deputy.

Harding pointed out to the media that the lecture used by the substitute, Walkiria Chandler, in the Women’s Commission in recent days, when a questionnaire was being made to the Deputy Minister of Health, Ivette Berrío, was not the ideal setting to make such a complaint and limited that what his colleague seeks when addressing controversial issues is the search for a seat in the next elections.

“I have come to do it formally; last Tuesday a substitute deputy tried to talk at the wrong time, violating the internal regulations of the National Assembly, I intervened three times to call to order as appropriate because I was the president of the commission in that moment. She denounced informally before the media and has been in a campaign in different media because she is a substitute deputy with the intention of being the main deputy and has become a spokesperson for any issue, “he argued.