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The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, ensured that his portfolio is willing to collaborate with the investigation carried by the Public Ministry against different government authorities for the alleged misinformation of figures of deaths from Covid-19.
This despite the fact that, within the framework of the investigation that arose from the specific complaint of Senator Alejandro Navarro (PRO) on the matter, The Minsal denied the Prosecutor’s Office access to the emails of the former head, Jaime Mañalich, of his then chief of staff, Itziar Linazasoro, and of the current Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza.
However, Paris explained in What Remains of the Day that when the officials appeared to carry out the seizure “there was a legal team in the Ministry of Health, and the request at that time was not acceptable, partly because of the health risk, and partly because of the opportunity in which it was requested “.
“Within the margin of the law we rejected that request, but knowing that they could go to the Supreme Court. If they go and the Supreme Court orders to deliver all those records, I will deliver it, I’m going to collaborate … I’m not saying, the Ministry of Health has an obligation to collaborate with justice, nobody has refused to do so, “he said.
[En vivo] Minister Paris and the frustrated seizure of documents under investigation from the Government for deaths: If the Supreme Court orders that this record be delivered, we will deliver it #CooperativeInHome https://t.co/6ZnWExBH0S
– Cooperativa (@Cooperativa) September 17, 2020
According to The Third PM, the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor, Xavier Armendariz, has already appealed to the highest court to settle this controversy, and noted that the refusal of the Minsal has no basis.
Therefore, the minister recounted the procedure carried out on that day, in which “A prosecutor with the PDI arrived to request without any notice -and later the lawyers informed me that they should have warned- to request the obtaining of these data. The same lawyers from the Ministry told me that this cannot be delivered, and I signed a letter saying ‘at the moment, it cannot be delivered’. We have not refused to deliver them“.
Regarding the very object of the investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office, Paris claimed that “there was no concealment” in the official data of the pandemic: “What I did some time after assuming is to change the methodology. Originally deaths were reported in one way; later we incorporated the DEIS figures, there was an increase of a thousand cases from one day to the next; and to make more transparent the data, twice a week we publish the probable cases. “
“I have made all the information transparent, and this was recognized by the WHO, this was recognized by PAHO, and the publication The Economist He ranked Chile among the five countries in the world that have the most transparent statistics in relation to Covid-19 issues, “he said.
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