The MOP official was unable to answer the question as to why the government said the houses being delivered in Marseille with money from savings from the El Salvador hospital, while it is not yet ready.
On Tuesday, delegates questioned Public Works ministers Romeo Rodríguez; and Minister of Health, Francisco Alabí, on the “Special Commission to Investigate Systematic Irregular Actions of the Executive Body Affecting Treatment, Prevention and Control of the Pandemic”. Lawmakers asked about the delay in the construction of the hospital in El Salvador.
ARENA deputy Emilio Corea questioned the minister about the delay in the completion of phase 3 of the hospital, while the same official had previously said it would be completed by the end of July 2020.
The Minister of Public Works avoided setting a date for phase three. He focused on how the hospital, with its phases 1 and 2, helped meet the demand of patients with COVID-19 and save lives.
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At the urging of the deputies, he accepted that they expect to complete the third phase in the first quarter of 2021 and stated that the Minister of Health was the one who could answer why phase III was not completed.
FMLN deputy Elizabeth Gómez pointed out that the government had announced that the hospital would be in place by May last year and that it now claimed that construction would be completed almost a year late.
In addition, the Minister of Public Works did not know how to answer Deputy Emilio Corea’s question about why the government was giving away houses, saying they have money from savings from the El Salvador hospital, while it is not yet ready.
The Minister of Health, for his part, justified that stages I and II of the El Salvador hospital gave due attention to the population and that he did not understand the delegates’ insistence on the completion of stage III.
On another topic, Alabí did not respond to what happened to the immunity cards that the government was going to issue to people who had recovered from COVID-19 and how many of these people got jobs, as announced.
Alabí was also questioned about the purchase of protective equipment for health workers, which, according to delegates, 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 died because of contact with the patients.
Regarding the under-registration of cases, he explained that they are based on international scientific evidence, such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and that the under-registration can be variable as given in other countries, but he has no figures given or explained. how is the country.
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“There is a protocol (covid) for funerals, in which all the management of the protocols is based on not endangering the population dealing with these types of patients, which is unknown.
The Head of Health was also questioned about the appointment given to a cousin to install a retention center, stating 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 received people who came from other countries.