The federal government says it has no information on the calls that make that servers of the nation run older adults to find out if they want to get vaccinated against the COVID-19.
This is despite the fact that the federal government reported since January last year that it would make these calls within the national vaccination plan against Covid-19. There are more than 15 million older adults in the country.
Following a request for information from THE UNIVERSAL, the Secretary of Welfare stated that, after an extensive and reasonable search in internal bodies, there is no specific information, so suggested going to the Secretary of health In), who in turn pointed out that this information was out of their care and asked to ask Bienestar again.
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Welfare, commanded by Javier May, stated in application 0002000028421 that it had no information on where these calls are made by the country’s servers, nor the number of phones used to communicate with the population.
“The Under-Secretariat of Planning, Evaluation and Regional Development states that once its files have been thoroughly searched, it has no record of any kind in its physical or electronic records to fulfill your request.
“The Directorate-General for Geostatistics and Beneficiary Registers indicates that it does not have the requested information after a thorough and reasonable search in its physical and electronic files,” they said.
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“The Directorate-General for Social Policy argues that it is not within its powers to have information about what is in it information request”, They underlined.
Although the delegation coordination unit stated that the request “does not match the attributions”, it indicated that it is therefore unable to respond.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, said entity informs you that, in accordance with the terms of the formation of the agreement special brigades, as an extraordinary action in area of health In general to carry out vaccination as a measure for the reduction and control of Covid-19 disease, throughout the national territory, the person responsible for correcting what is needed is the Ministry of Health, because it is a is a matter of his competence, ”they insisted.
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In this sense, the Department of Health pointed out that the information on the number of older adults who have been called by phone asking if they want to be vaccinated against Covid-19, how many phone calls they made, from where and what the cost of this is not their jurisdiction, but from the Ministry of Welfare, which is responsible for May Rodríguez.
“It is not the Ministry of Health staff who are responsible for making the phone calls, but the Ministry of Welfare staff, who have to provide the corresponding information,” he replied to EL UNIVERSAL.
On January 25 Juan Antonio Ferrer, holder of the Institute of Health for Wellbeing Insabi), announced in The heartbeat of health, that Bienestar started calling the phones of the elderly to confirm whether they wanted to receive the dose or not, and on that basis created the standard with which to start their immunization.
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“We know the vaccine is universal, but it is also voluntary. What we do is, according to a population registry that we have, we know the names of the elderly people living in the country.” Everyone is called by the Ministry of Welfare by telephone to say name, age, address and to know whether they want the vaccine to be administered or not. This is a first step. If they say yes, then we will know their address and whether the person can be mobilized, or we will have to go to their home and vaccinate them, ”the official explained.
Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, assured that these calls do not have election purposes, arguing that any abuse of power should be denounced and punished.
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EL UNIVERSAL has documented that, according to political scientists and specialists, the participation of the national servants in the anti-coronavirus vaccination campaign in the elderly is part of a political-electoral strategy and an open promotion of the federal government.
They felt that these calls are similar to those made by political parties in election campaigns to promote candidates.