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PART 2:
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26 January 2021....by Fabiola Czubaj and Pablo Fernández Blanco.
....Restricted access. The secrecy that surrounds Sputnik V in the country does not occur only between the Government and the population, but also within the State. LA NACION confirmed that the orders that go from 16 to 46 in the vaccine approval file are of restricted access. The documents include information erasures, sometimes complete pages in black, illegible even for the translation of Paula Danielievna Di Santo. They are "non-visible parts", says the translator (see images).
One of those who do have access is Mauricio Monsalvo, undersecretary of Administrative Management of the Ministry and in charge of complying with the procedures. Monsalvo was coordinator of the Remediar Program between 2010 and 2016. The specific file with the information on the purchase of the vaccine is confidential. As LA NACION was able to verify, between December 3 and 12, only seven officials had access, including Minister Ginés González García and the Secretary for Access to Health who traveled to Russia, Carla Vizzotti.
According to specialists in public administration, this restriction is rare. Before the consultation by this medium, none of the officials involved or legislators of the ruling party explained why the reserve is so high. Administrative decision 1721 of the Chief of Cabinet establishes the guidelines for the acquisition of vaccines against Covid. It's from September of last year. There he argues that the processes must have a high degree of transparency, something that conflicts with the reserved nature of the operation. In fact, the Government would be empowered to maintain secrecy only in cases where national security is at stake.
"The forecast of reserving 10 million treatments of the Russian vaccine even before it has finished its research process allowed that, today, Argentina has enough doses to provide one of the safest and most effective vaccines available to its population of risk ", says deputy Pablo Yedlín (Frente de Todos), president of the Commission for Social Action and Public Health of the National Chamber of Deputies. The legislator highlights the work "in the current global context of high demand and low supply" of Congress, by sanctioning "the harsh rules required by this hiring process, confidentiality, extension of jurisdiction and payment of compensation" to carry forward what the ruling party proclaims as "the largest vaccination campaign in the history" of the country.
Along these lines, the Government maintains that it bought 22.43 million doses of AstraZeneca (Yedlin clarifies that they will be available from March), 9 million from the so-called COVAX fund and another 20 million from the Russian one. "The delay in the AstraZeneca laboratory, whose vaccine was the one that the Government expected to have before the others, is due to the fact that it suffered a setback in the investigation, which generated a turnaround in the negotiations and forced them to focus on the Sputnik vaccine -V from the Gamaleya National Center, which, without prejudice to the prestige of that institution, is the least documented of all. However, the political need to have a photo vaccinating someone before the end of last year managed to advance a symbolic game of 300,000 doses for the first application (Ad26) ", indicates the deputy Carmen Polledo (PRO), who shares commission with Yedlín as 1st vice president. "Why other negotiations did not succeed should be clarified by the Government," he says.
National deputy Eduardo "Bali" Bucca (PJ), who is a member of the Lower House Health Commission, maintains that the emergency approval is adjusted to the law by the new law that empowers the Minister of Health to do so. "The Sputnik V vaccine is one of the three that the Argentine State has already approved by the same mechanism and the only one circulating in the country. None of the other bidders have offered the Government today a specific number with their pluses and minuses. ", indicates the legislator. "Regarding the supply and the deadlines, the central point is to know who manufactures it and from which country. But, until Argentina has the possibility of visiting the plants, it will not be able to be certain of the arrival or not of the vaccines. . The Government cannot be so informal of not giving clear and precise information of the manufacturer, the terms of manufacture and the origin ", thinks Bucca. "Responsibility must be appealed to when communicating because beyond the signed contracts, the assigned quotas, there is a production and logistics variable that does not depend on Argentina," says Bucca. And: "Producing the vaccine means having the supplies, the materials for the assembly of the doses and, in this context of global demand, the State must be responsible for not generating false expectations in society. In addition, it must establish all the mechanisms so that in the future that production can also have national dominance. "
In part, Polledo also attributes the public distrust generated by this reservation and purchase procedure to the government's communication style. "She prefers to informally let the documentation possessed transcend instead of publishing it where it corresponds, which is the ANMAT site, or the Ministry of Health," she says. It refers, in particular, to one of the ANMAT reports that the regulatory body recently "recognized as its own" after a request for access to public information from the Coalicion Civica. "On the other hand, there is an exaggeration by the ruling party regarding the scope of the confidentiality compromised in the contracts", defines the legislator.
Vacuna Sputnik V: tachaduras, el borrador ruso y otras sorpresas en un expediente guardado bajo siete llaves
Vacuna Sputnik V: tachaduras, el borrador ruso y otras sorpresas en un expediente guardado bajo siete llaves
www.lanacion.com.ar
....Restricted access. The secrecy that surrounds Sputnik V in the country does not occur only between the Government and the population, but also within the State. LA NACION confirmed that the orders that go from 16 to 46 in the vaccine approval file are of restricted access. The documents include information erasures, sometimes complete pages in black, illegible even for the translation of Paula Danielievna Di Santo. They are "non-visible parts", says the translator (see images).
One of those who do have access is Mauricio Monsalvo, undersecretary of Administrative Management of the Ministry and in charge of complying with the procedures. Monsalvo was coordinator of the Remediar Program between 2010 and 2016. The specific file with the information on the purchase of the vaccine is confidential. As LA NACION was able to verify, between December 3 and 12, only seven officials had access, including Minister Ginés González García and the Secretary for Access to Health who traveled to Russia, Carla Vizzotti.
According to specialists in public administration, this restriction is rare. Before the consultation by this medium, none of the officials involved or legislators of the ruling party explained why the reserve is so high. Administrative decision 1721 of the Chief of Cabinet establishes the guidelines for the acquisition of vaccines against Covid. It's from September of last year. There he argues that the processes must have a high degree of transparency, something that conflicts with the reserved nature of the operation. In fact, the Government would be empowered to maintain secrecy only in cases where national security is at stake.
"The forecast of reserving 10 million treatments of the Russian vaccine even before it has finished its research process allowed that, today, Argentina has enough doses to provide one of the safest and most effective vaccines available to its population of risk ", says deputy Pablo Yedlín (Frente de Todos), president of the Commission for Social Action and Public Health of the National Chamber of Deputies. The legislator highlights the work "in the current global context of high demand and low supply" of Congress, by sanctioning "the harsh rules required by this hiring process, confidentiality, extension of jurisdiction and payment of compensation" to carry forward what the ruling party proclaims as "the largest vaccination campaign in the history" of the country.
Along these lines, the Government maintains that it bought 22.43 million doses of AstraZeneca (Yedlin clarifies that they will be available from March), 9 million from the so-called COVAX fund and another 20 million from the Russian one. "The delay in the AstraZeneca laboratory, whose vaccine was the one that the Government expected to have before the others, is due to the fact that it suffered a setback in the investigation, which generated a turnaround in the negotiations and forced them to focus on the Sputnik vaccine -V from the Gamaleya National Center, which, without prejudice to the prestige of that institution, is the least documented of all. However, the political need to have a photo vaccinating someone before the end of last year managed to advance a symbolic game of 300,000 doses for the first application (Ad26) ", indicates the deputy Carmen Polledo (PRO), who shares commission with Yedlín as 1st vice president. "Why other negotiations did not succeed should be clarified by the Government," he says.
National deputy Eduardo "Bali" Bucca (PJ), who is a member of the Lower House Health Commission, maintains that the emergency approval is adjusted to the law by the new law that empowers the Minister of Health to do so. "The Sputnik V vaccine is one of the three that the Argentine State has already approved by the same mechanism and the only one circulating in the country. None of the other bidders have offered the Government today a specific number with their pluses and minuses. ", indicates the legislator. "Regarding the supply and the deadlines, the central point is to know who manufactures it and from which country. But, until Argentina has the possibility of visiting the plants, it will not be able to be certain of the arrival or not of the vaccines. . The Government cannot be so informal of not giving clear and precise information of the manufacturer, the terms of manufacture and the origin ", thinks Bucca. "Responsibility must be appealed to when communicating because beyond the signed contracts, the assigned quotas, there is a production and logistics variable that does not depend on Argentina," says Bucca. And: "Producing the vaccine means having the supplies, the materials for the assembly of the doses and, in this context of global demand, the State must be responsible for not generating false expectations in society. In addition, it must establish all the mechanisms so that in the future that production can also have national dominance. "
In part, Polledo also attributes the public distrust generated by this reservation and purchase procedure to the government's communication style. "She prefers to informally let the documentation possessed transcend instead of publishing it where it corresponds, which is the ANMAT site, or the Ministry of Health," she says. It refers, in particular, to one of the ANMAT reports that the regulatory body recently "recognized as its own" after a request for access to public information from the Coalicion Civica. "On the other hand, there is an exaggeration by the ruling party regarding the scope of the confidentiality compromised in the contracts", defines the legislator.
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