The MOP official did not know how to answer the question why the Government said that the houses delivered in Marseille are with funds from savings from the El Salvador Hospital, when it is not finished.
The deputies questioned on Tuesday the ministers of public works, Romeo Rodríguez; and the Minister of Health, Francisco Alabí, in the “Special Commission for the Investigation of Irregular Systematic Actions of the Executive Body Affecting the Treatment, Prevention and Control of the Pandemic”. Lawmakers asked about the delay in the construction of the El Salvador hospital.
Deputy Emilio Corea, from ARENA, asked the minister about the delay in completing phase 3 of the hospital, when previously the same official had said that it would be completed by the end of July 2020.
The Minister of Public Works avoided specifying a date for the third phase. He focused on how the hospital, with phases 1 and 2, helped meet the demand of COVID-19 patients and save lives.
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At the insistence of the deputies, he accepted that they expect to complete the third stage in the first quarter of 2021 and said that the Minister of Health is the one who could answer why phase III was not completed.
FMLN MP Elizabeth Gómez stressed that the government announced that the hospital will be in May last year and that it now states that it will finish the construction almost a year late.
In addition, the Minister of Public Works did not know how to answer the question of Deputy Emilio Corea about the reason why the government gave up houses saying that they have funds from savings from the El Salvador hospital, when it is not finished.
The Minister of Health justified, in his turn, that phases I and II of the El Salvador hospital pay the necessary attention to the population and that he does not understand the insistence of the deputies regarding the completion of phase III.
On another subject, Alabí did not respond to what happened to the immunity cards that the Government was going to deliver to people recovered from COVID-19 and how many people were given work, as announced.
Alabí was also asked about the purchase of protective equipment for health professionals, which MPs said was insufficient to prevent the death of health workers, to which the minister replied that at the time of the pandemic crisis. Many doctors and other health workers have died as a result of contact with patients.
Regarding the under-registration of cases, he explained that they were based on international scientific evidence such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and that under-registration may be variable as given by other countries, but did not give figures or he did not explain what the country is like.
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“There is a protocol (covid) for funerals, in which all the management of the protocols is based on the fact that the population that deals with this type of patients is not put at risk, which is unknown.
The Head of Health was also asked about the employment of a cousin for the installation of a detention center, where he stated that the person in the contract is his relative, but that his state portfolio was not the one who made the contracts. for these places where they sheltered people who came from other countries.