translated from Spanish: Senators claim Gatell epidemic management and stand by appearance

The Undersecretary of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, and the holder of the Federal Commission for the Protection of Health Risks (Coferpis), José Alonso Novelo Baeza, were unable to finish their third intervention in their senate appearance. The chairman of the Health Commission, Miguel Navarro, decided to suspend the session when panista lawmaker Martha Marquez showed a banner accusing López Gatell of inept.
The opposition had already made a number of complaints to the two officials for what they consider a mis management of the pandemic and drug abaste, such as cancers.
Veronica Delgadillo García of the Citizen Movement said that “the management of the epidemic in the country has been a real disaster, it has been full of omissions, negligence and mistakes. I wish that would all be there, but we’re talking about lives, thousands and thousands of people who lost everything they had, even a loved one.”
The senator assured that since the start of the pandemic it was clear that things were not going the right way, “that is why on March 16 I publicly asked for your resignation as undersecretary and as responsible for the contingency of the coronavirus, because you demonstrated from that moment your lack of seriousness, that at a time as critical as the one we lived you were going to put politics above science , health and life, because he proved to have a greater concern to look good with his boss, the president.”
Delgadillo Garcia told Gatell that he had washed his oath as a doctor and “that makes you a criminal. Criminal is not having prepared our country for the three months he had before the arrival of the coronavirus. Criminal is not having taken care of national and international recommendations for testing, testing and further testing. Criminal is to have told people that the water cover wasn’t useful, when it was. And now he’s promoting it because he’s out of someone else’ way, but he’s not even able to get the president to use it. Criminal is to have finished the day of healthy distance early. Criminal is that Mexico is the first country with the most deaths of medical personnel.”
The legislator asked him how many more deaths are worth his resignation? Because it looks like 83 grand isn’t enough. What does it take for him to resign out of dignity or at least out of respect for his profession and the critical moment we are living in Mexico? What does it take for this nightmare to stop?”
On the part of the PRI, Senator Silvana Beltrones Sánchez, secretary of the Health Committee, noted that since the beginning of the pandemic a dance of data and forecasts has been presented. “Won’t it be worth increasing the number of tests and thus having a realistic assessment of the situation before reaching 100,000 deaths?”
The senator complained that “in the midst of a crisis over dissatisfied it turns out that now 32,000 cancer drugs are disappearing,” and asked to clarify how long it takes Cofepris to grant a health record and how they are resolving the issue of distribution if they are buying from foreign laboratories.
While PAN Senator Alejandra Naomi Reynoso Sánchez questioned whether vaccination levels had fallen in the country, as well as that the scale of the covid pandemic was underestimated and unrecognized in Mexico, Senator Xóchilt Gálvez deployed a tarpain while other senators of her party, such as Lilly Téllez, showed in their curules posters with the phrases : No more lies and there is other data.
On the theft of cancer drugs, panist Senator Martha Marquez threw, addressing the headline of Cofepris: “Doctor Novelo, do you know who stole the cancer drugs? You, you and the undersecretary and the president, yes, gentlemen, yes, because you decided to make this mess with Novag.”
These drugs, he added, “that today the children with cancer were missing from you because that is the public service, because you decided in all areas to initiate this disaster with medicines and with this company Novag. And as I say, Commissioner, you are responsible for the desabasto, you are to blame,” the senator threw, without clarifying what she specificly meant by the Novag disaster.
Novelo, for his part, noted that Cofepris in past administrations was full of corruption and that medicines that did not have a health record or in their countries of origin were allowed to be marketed.
“In the Committee on New Molecules, now made up of conflict-free specialists of interest who evaluate products coming from other countries, products that did not have a health record in the country of origin came into evaluation in past administrations, which is and at the same time came products that were not proven effective.”
Lopez-Gatell, for his part, said he did not lose hope that those who posed that evidence, evidence, evidence, and the water cover will see the evidence, see the evening conferences 220 of which have been made.
“We invite you again to integrate, with all due respect, that this cognitive dissonance does not make them remain in the redoubt of the minority, of the self-representation of their minority role in the public consciousness, we invite them to be part of the solution. I regret that it is subtracted from reality, I see empty curules again, as in the appearance of my teacher Alcocer, but we do not lose hope.”
At that moment the undersecretary pointed out that Senator Martha Marquez was leaving the session and asked nod if she would take the blankets she and Galvez had placed, but instead of leaving the room, Marquez turned to him, gave him antibacterial gel and held a banner emulating the warnings now needed for food and drink, although the banner warned of the undersecretary’s alleged ineptitude.
Against that, the chairman of the Health Committee suspended the arraignment and officials were no longer able to complete their third speech.
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