Both officials said they had tasks and activities that they could not postpone. Representative Emilio Corea, from ARENA, reported that they were called again, but if they do not arrive, they will be summoned urgently.
Amid the Assembly’s approval of a new law on protecting the rights of the elderly on Wednesday, the directors of the asylum Sara Zaldívar and the Salvadoran Institute for Integral Rehabilitation (ISRI) did not respond to deputies’ calls to explain the deaths of more than 50 elderly people. from that shelter.
Both officials apologized for having activities in their institutions that they could not postpone. Both letters were received on this day by the special commission investigating how the government treated the pandemic.
„With reference to the note received no. 6371 of January 25, 2021, where I am obliged to participate in an urgent working session on Wednesday, January 27 of this year, at 11:30; In this regard, I inform you that I have scheduled activities, which I could not postpone due to the lack of time with which I was summoned. Due to the above, I will not be able to participate in the session “, justified Claudia Susana Barahona de Melara, director of the Sara Zaldívar Care Center.
ISRI President Mayra Ligia Gallardo Alvarado explained in his note that: “I have a work schedule scheduled in the institution I chair and this cannot be delegated.”
Deputies wanted to know first hand the reasons that led to the death of more than 50 elderly people at the Sara Zaldívar asylum due to COVID-19, according to the report issued by the Attorney General for Human Rights.
In this regard, the chairman of the Special Commission and the deputy of ARENA, Emilio Corea, explained that they apologized nine times for not going to the Health Committee, the Family Committee and other legislative working commissions to which they were called.
“We will call them again for Monday, February 1 at one in the afternoon, if they do not arrive, on February 3 we will call them under pressure,” Corea said.