Special Assembly Commission recommends Bukele to dismiss the health minister

The foregoing is part of the report approved by the special commission that has investigated the government’s response to the pandemic.

Recommend President Nayib Bukele to take the Health Minister Francisco Alabí, is the main conclusion of the special commission delegates who analyzed the administration that the government made of the emergency that arose from the COVID-19 pandemic, after completing that agency’s mandate.

The recommendation emerges after discovering several irregularities, such as the lack of transparency and conflicts of interest, as the committee confirmed through Tourism Minister Morena Valdez that a relative of the Minister of Health was hired by Tourism to build a property to rent that served as a containment. centers, following the favorable recommendation of the Ministry of Health.

The special commission decided yesterday to issue a report stressing that there was no comprehensive management plan for the pandemic in its critical phase and if there was one, it was not publicly known.

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They point out that the government was not transparent about the statistics on deaths and cases of COVID-19 and the number of tests performed on the population.

They concluded that of the $ 25 million loan that Social Security transferred in equipment to the new El Salvador hospital, the way in which the said funds will be repaid to the ISSS has not been defined, although Alabí stated at the time that the payment would be in pediatric services at Benjamin Bloom Children’s Hospital which does not provide Social Security.

In addition, they urge ministers, deputy ministers and other officials of the executive branch to “end blockages of public information of an epidemiological nature”; and the Health Minister is asked to carry out technical sanitary work, “away from any political tendency that is detrimental to the human rights of Salvadorans.”

The special committee will send the report to the attorney general’s office, the Government Ethics Tribunal, Human Rights Watch, and the United States Congress and Senate.

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