Last Saturday, January 23, the minister went to this geriatric center, with a vaccination brigade from the public sector, to immunize patients from the private sector
The private residence, as well as the Hospital de Los Valles, where the Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos, went to vaccinate last Saturday, January 23, together with a brigade from the Pablo Arturo Suárez Hospital, does not appear in the vaccination plan prepared by the Ministry of Health.
In the list of the 95 institutions designated by the State Portfolio, to apply the first 8000 doses of Pfizer that arrived in the country, in the province of Pichincha, there is no Los Valles Hospital, nor the Senior Suites Rivera del Río Geriatric center , from Cumbayá, where Zevallos went on the weekend, to apply the doses to older adults residing in this place.
The only nursing home that appears in the list is the Gerontological Center for Good Living of the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion, located in Cayambe.
The minister confirmed that he has several relatives in the Hospital de los Valles and after investigations carried out by this means of communication, it was determined that his mother was among his relatives.
The news generated criticism because it is not a gerontological center but rather an apartment building for the elderly. In 2015, its administrator specified a newspaper in the capital that “It is not a nursing home, it is a residence building.”
The event was triggered in several requests for the dismissal of Minister Zevallos, as well as the request for impeachment against him. On the night of this Tuesday, January 26, the Plenary of the Assembly approved the resolution requesting President Lenín Moreno to remove Zevallos from his position as Minister of Health.
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