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This afternoon the Investigative Commission that supervised government acts that could mean an unjustified reduction in death registrations, due to Covid-19, finished voting on its conclusions.
Those that were approved with the votes of the opposition deputies Marisela Santibáñez (PC) -president of the instance-, Maya Fernández (PS), Alejandra Sepúlveda (FRVS), Marcela Hernando (PR), Miguel Crispi (RD), Fernando Meza (IND) and Gastón Saavedra (PS). While they were against the parliamentarians Karin Luck (RN), Iván Norambuena (UDI), Gustavo Sanhueza (UDI), Leonidas Romero (RN) and Francisco Eguiguren (RN).
Parliamentary work that was reflected in a 128-page document – to which La Tercera agreed and which was sent to the room for voting -, where a series of conclusions and recommendations are delivered regarding the management of death toll from the pandemic.
Within what the text establishes in its considerations, it is that “it is evident that the government made several communicational mistakes, which expressed unclear communication messages towards the citizenry, also publicly polemicizing the recommendations of experts. The erratic and reckless communicational handling of the government, particularly the President of the Republic, and the former Minister of Health Jaime Mañalich constitute reprehensible acts, since they contributed to a greater distrust of citizens in the measures adopted by the authorities, and that they had a impact on the population, by minimizing risks or signaling less fatality, generating higher risk behaviors in the population ”.
Regarding the specific case of the registration of deaths in the pandemic, the parliamentary body stated in its report that “It can be concluded that the Ministry of Health, especially the former Minister of Health Jaime Mañalich, the Undersecretary of Health Paula Daza and the former Undersecretary of Healthcare Networks Arturo Zúñiga, were not diligent in adopting the appropriate measures to ensure the reportability of the data, due to deaths due to COVID-19 and therefore did not fully comply with their obligations as authorities in charge of the epidemiological surveillance system, being responsible for delivering erroneous information to citizens, not in accordance with the recommendations of the WHO, since they had and had access to the DEIS Register of deaths due to COVID19, an organism that uses the WHO criteria and international standards for the registration of diseases ”.
To which they added “that the seriousness of the lack of methodological rigor in the delivery of the“ erroneous ”reports made by the health authority for the registration of deaths, lowering the COVID-19 fatality rate It was based on altering the perception of the public regarding the mortality of the pandemic in the country and generating a feeling of good management by the authority in control of the Virus, of the existence of a new normality and of minimizing the reality about a pandemic that to this day is far from being controlled, and that has us on the brink of a “second wave” of infections ”.
The parliamentarians in their final report also deliver a series of recommendations to improve the handling of figures during the pandemic.
The main one is redesign the way the pandemic is managed, “allowing the strengthening and reliability of the statistical system through early linkage, by the Ministry of Health, the scientific and academic community in the management of statistics related to the pandemic, as well as following the recommendations to deal with COVID-19 ″.
Likewise, it follows that the government “adjusts the figures of deaths reported publicly by equating it to the registry of deaths kept by the DEIS, therefore considering suspected cases and confirmed cases, as recommended by the WHO and the Medical College. In the face of an imminent “Second Wave”, it is necessary for the public to perceive the real risk and mortality that the pandemic implies, so that the measures adopted to contain the contagions are better assumed by the citizens ”.
As noted above, now the report must be voted on in the Chamber, for which there is still no set date. However, it has already been defined that she is the president of the instance, Marisela Santibáñez, the informant deputy.
In its pages the document also has the minority report proposed by parliamentarians of Chile Vamos, which was not endorsed by the instance.
“Among the main conclusions we reached is that former minister Jaime Mañalich and his undersecretary and former undersecretary Arturo Zúñiga made political mistakes in controlling the pandemic. They lost the traceability of infections, they installed the concept of a ‘new normal’ that did not exist at the time they announced it “Santibáñez said about the work done.
To add that “regarding the registration of deaths, we conclude that under the authority of former Minister Mañalich and his undersecretaries, lower figures than the real ones were reported, without taking into consideration the recommendations of the WHO, nor the registration of the Deis.”
