“The Minister was right to vaccinate Ministers who are in the territory, his inner circle, and apply the criterion of vaccinating the President for state security,” he stressed.
The President of the Republic, Lenín Moreno, referred to the list of VIP people who had access to the vaccine in phase zero and acknowledged that there was discretion to select people, but this responsibility would fall on the former Minister of Health, Juan Carlos Zevallos .
In the first instance, Moreno thanked Juan Carlos Zevallos for managing him in the Ministry of Health and said that he did an excellent job, at the worst moment of the pandemic. He also clarified that he did design a vaccination plan, but it was not complete.
“When I referred to the fact that there was no vaccination plan, it is how I had conceived it, a plan cannot be only general guidelines, it must have procedures, goals, objectives, specific activities and discretion management”
In the same way, he justified the immunization for him, his wife and his close circle for reasons of strategic state security.
In addition, he accepted that in the vaccination plan there was discretion on the part of former minister Zevallos, since he invited several journalists, former presidents, ministers and businessmen to the inoculation. Although he stated that he did not order the vaccination of him.
“In a plan there may be discretion, but it must be technically justified”
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