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During the afternoon of this Monday, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, said that he has “defended the actions of Minister Mañalich, recognizing that he did a great job. On the issue of the initial pandemic he was visionary “.
This is generated after this Sunday a constitutional accusation was presented against the former Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, promoted by opposition parties, according to La Tercera.
The libel accuses the former minister of “Having put the life and health of the population at risk” and “concealment of data and lack of administrative integrity” during the health crisis.
Paris mentioned that while he respected that the legislative branch sent the project, he defended the actions of the former minister and the measures he took before the arrival of Covid-19.
Although Paris expressed its respect for the Legislative Power for sending the accusation, It does defend Mañalich’s management and the measures he took before the arrival of COVID-19.
“I want to make a closed defense of what Jaime Mañalich did (…). I believe that Minister Mañalich, and I am telling all of Chile, did a commendable job in the pandemic, there was never a lack of a fan, there was never a lack of an intensive care bed, ”he said.
In that line he added that “We are the country in Latin America that has the most tests per million inhabitants —but by far— and those were the two pillars of its health program.”
“Unfortunately throughout the world we are seeing a second wave (…) today Israel returns to quarantine, in Spain there are more than 9 thousand cases a day, in Argentina there are more than 10 thousand cases a day,” he said. Despite this, he said that in Chile “PCR positivity is very low.”
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