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The prime minister said Thursday that the resignation of Francisco Ramos as coordinator of the covid-19 vaccination plan has nothing to do with the work of this program, whose operation is progressing “successfully.”
This position was transmitted by António Costa at the end of a visit to the São João de Deus Penitentiary Hospital, in Caxias, municipality of Oeiras, where he was accompanied by the Minister of Justice, Francisco Van Dunem, and in which he marked the beginning of the process of vaccination of prison officials.
Asked by journalists about the causes of the resignation of Francisco Ramos, former Secretary of State for Health, the executive leader said that “the replacement of the person responsible for workgroup It had nothing to do with the work of the vaccination plan against covid-19 ”.
According to António Costa, this dismissal was due to “an event in an institution, the Hospital da Cruz Vermelha” in which Francisco Ramos is also president of the Board of Directors.
Asked whether the appointment of Vice Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo is a sign that the Government should have given the military a prominent position earlier in the vaccination process against invitation-19, the Prime Minister objected that the Armed Forces, “since the beginning “, have assumed a central role.
“Vice Admiral Gouveia e Melo was already a member of the working group and responsible for the entire logistics organization of this operation”, I observe.
