(Prensa Latina) Ecuador ends today a week of scandals related to the Vaccinate Yourself Plan, which seeks to immunize 60 percent of the population against Covid-19 until the end of next October.
Among the main events related to the subject was the resignation of Rodolfo Farfan, who was in charge of the Public Health Ministry for only 19 days, since last March 1, who replaced Juan Carlos Zevallos that had resigned as the National Assembly was assessing his impeachment.
Complaints of mismanagement of the immunization program, which began on January 21 with the start of phase Zero or Pilot Project, recently increased when the inoculation of vaccines in a private club in the city of Guayaquil, without being part of the prioritized sectors, was uncovered.
In social networks there were also reports about alleged people who were favored with doses of the product acquired by the government from Pfizer/BionTech laboratories.The day before, the situation worsened with the dissemination of an alleged list of Vaccinated Gold, published by La Posta news website.
Amidst criticism, Ecuador concluded Phase Zero of vaccination, which included personnel in the front line of the fight against the disease, as well as the elderly and carers of geriatric centers, and started Stage 1, for the rest of the health workers, firefighters, National Police, Armed Forces, teachers and employees of strategic sectors.
At the same time, last Monday, the application of a digital platform for the registration of senior citizens in the Vaccination Plan began, which turned out to be unsuccessful and made the registration of hundreds of senior citizens impossible.
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