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The Minister of Health, Enrique ParisHe pointed out that the portfolio he directs will collaborate with the investigations carried out by the Public Ministry against the President Sebastián Piñera, the former Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, and other Government authorities for the management of the pandemic, so if the Supreme Court It indicates it, it will deliver information and documents that the prosecution requires.
It should be noted that on this day the prosecutor Xavier Armendariz, of the North Metropolitan Central Prosecutor’s Office, appealed to the highest court to intervene after the minister refused to deliver the required documentation.
The investigation arises in the framework of the complaint filed by the mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue, against President Sebastián Piñera and the Health authorities regarding the handling of the pandemic, and also due to a judicial action by Senator Alejandro Navarro.
Paris He assured this afternoon, on Radio Cooperativa, that “in the Ministry of Health there is a legal team, and the request at that time was not admissible, 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,” he admitted, “but knowing that they could go to the Supreme Court. If they go and the Supreme Court orders to hand over all those records, I am going to hand them over, I am going to collaborate… I am not saying, the Ministry of Health has an obligation to collaborate with the justice system, nobody has refused to do so ”.
On the procedure carried out on the day in which he denied access to documentation on the pandemic and emails from the former minister MañalichHe pointed out that “a prosecutor with the PDI arrived to request these data without any warning, and later the lawyers informed me that they should have notified. The same lawyers from the Ministry told me that this cannot be delivered, and I signed a letter saying “for the moment, it cannot be delivered.” We have not refused to hand them over ”.
In any case, Paris He pointed out that in the management of his predecessor “there was no concealment” regarding the figures of the pandemic.
“What I did some time after assuming is to change the methodology. Deaths were originally reported in one way; then we incorporated the Deis figures, there was an increase of a thousand cases from one day to the next, and to make the data more transparent, twice a week we publish the probable cases ”, he stated.
“I have made all the information transparent, and this was recognized by the WHO, this was recognized by PAHO, and the publication The Economist ranked Chile among the five countries in the world that have the most transparent statistics in relation to the issues of COVID-19“, he concluded.
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