They ask to investigate if 60 doses of Sputnik V were diverted on a flight to El Calafate

The national deputy Graciela Ocaña made a presentation in the last hours before the federal prosecutor Eduardo Taiano, who investigates the VIP vaccination, to denounce an alleged diversion of 60 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine during a transfer to the city of El Calafate. A medical chief from the Posadas Hospital was involved in the maneuver.

According to that presentation, the events would have occurred on January 23, on an Aerolineas Argentinas flight that departed from Ezeiza airport to El Calafate airport. The departure of the flight would have been delayed after a call from “an authority of Aerolineas Argentinas” to the Airport Security Police (PSA). In that communication, it was advised that an emissary from the then Secretary of Health Access, Carla Vizzotti, was arriving at the airport to separate about 60 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine from a batch that was traveling to El Calafate.

The person who would have fulfilled this task would be Gustavo Javier Bahut, head of monitoring at the Posadas Hospital.

“In order for this strange separation of vaccines to go unnoticed, the following plan would have been devised: the conservator or refrigerator that was used to store the doses removed from the batch, would have passed through the scanner intended for the control of the crew,” says the presentation you had access to Infobae. And he adds: “For this reason, agents of the Airport Security Police would have introduced the vaccines through the scanner, and the conservator would have given them to the commander of the aircraft with the surname Dono for transport.”

As he could know Infobae, That day there was indeed a flight to Calafate and the package with the doses would have passed through the scanner to be delivered to the commander of the plane. “They are part of an agreement between the Posadas and the Calafate hospital,” said an official source.

Ocaña made the judicial presentation before the prosecutor Taiano under the hypothesis that those 60 doses would have been part of a “vip vaccination”. Among other measures, the deputy requested that the records of the security cameras at the Ezeiza and El Calafate airports be verified, and that the people involved be summoned.

The province of Santa Cruz, governed by Alicia Kirchner, was part of the vip vaccination scandal. In mid-February, it was learned that the mayor of the town of Luis Piedrabuena, Federico Bodlovic, applied the Sputnik V vaccine with his wife and driver. The information became public because they came to light three audios of that conversation at the district hospital. At that time, the health center workers were meeting in an assembly considering that they had not been taken into account for vaccination, despite being an area of ​​permanent risk.

The government of Alicia Kirchner came out to distance itself from the political scandal. “If there was a wrong action, the consequences must be taken care of, and those who have some responsibility will also respond.“Said at that time the deputy governor of Santa Cruz, Eugenio Quiroga, in radio statements.

It was also known that several were vaccinated older adults in the municipal nursing home in the town of Gobernador Gregores, although at that time the province of Santa Cruz had not yet finished vaccinating health personnel. Because of this, the director of the local hospital resigned.

In Santa Cruz there was also a national deputy who lied to get vaccinated. This is Juan Benedicto Vázquez, who was mayor of the town of Gobernador Gregores and entered Congress at the end of 2017. Despite the scandal, he is still in office, in fact he participated in Saturday’s session and voted against the project of the opposition to investigate cases of vaccinated vip.

According to records accessed Infobae, deputy got vaccinated with the first dose of Sputnik V on February 6 and was enrolled in the system as part of the group “18 to 59 years with risk factors.”