The MOP official could not answer the question of why the government said that the houses delivered to Marseille are with funds from a savings of the Hospital del Salvador, when it is not finished.
The deputies questioned this Tuesday the ministers of Public Works, Romeu Rodríguez; and to the Minister of Health, Francisco Alabi, in the “Special Commission to Investigate Systematic Irregular Actions of the Executive Body, Affecting the Treatment, Prevention, and Combat of the Pandemic.” Lawmakers asked about the delay in building the El Salvador hospital.
ARENA MP Emilio Corea questioned the minister about the delay in completing Phase 3 of the hospital, when earlier the same official had said it would be completed by the end of July 2020.
The Minister of Public Works evaded specifying a date for phase 3. He focused on saying how the hospital, with its phases 1 and 2, has contributed to meeting the demand of patients with COVID-19 and save lives .
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At the insistence of the deputies, he accepted that they hope to complete the third stage in the first quarter of 2021 and stated that the Minister of Health was the one who could answer because phase III was not over.
MPF Gomez MP Elizabeth Gomez noted that the government had announced that the hospital would be in May last year, and that it was now claiming that construction would be completed almost a year late.
In addition, the Minister of Public Works did not know how to answer the question of the deputy Emilio Korea on why the Government gave away houses saying that they are with funds coming from a saving of the Hospital of El Salvador, when this one does not it’s over.
The Minister of Health justified, for his part, that phases I and II of the El Salvador hospital were giving the necessary care to the population and that he did not understand the insistence of the deputies on the completion of phase III.
In another issue, Alabi did not respond about what happened to the immunity cards that the Government was going to give to people recovered from COVID-19 and how many of these people were given work, as announced.
Alabi was also questioned about the purchase of protective equipment for health professionals, which deputies said was insufficient to prevent the mortality of health workers, to which the minister replied that at the time of the crisis of the pandemic by contact with patients was that many doctors and other health workers died.
Regarding the under-registration of cases, he explained that they have been based on international scientific evidence such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and that under-registration can be as variable as that given by other countries, but did not give figures or explain how the country is.
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“There is a protocol (covid) for burials, in which all the management of the protocols is based on the fact that it is not put at risk to the population that is handling this type of patients which is unknown.
The head of Health was also questioned about the contract awarded to a cousin, to install a detention center, to which he stated that the person in the contract is his relative, but that his state portfolio is not she was the one who carried out the contracts for these places where they protected people who came from other countries.