The United States denounced the lack of transparency of the vaccination plan of the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela: “It should not depend on the Carnet de la Patria”

James story criticized this Thursday the coronavirus vaccination plan that favors the dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro, arguing that this “should not depend on the national map”.

“You must have a transparent vaccine delivery system. It shouldn’t depend on the national card, or whether you are a friend of a plug-in or if you are working with the diet. It should not depend on your political position, but on the need that each person has“, said the US ambassador to Venezuela in a live broadcast on social networks.

The official said that a large part of the population is “Out of order“So as not to have any links with the regime. “Vaccines belong to everyone», He underlined.

More, explained why Venezuela is not on the list of countries that will receive vaccines donated by Joe Biden’s government: “This does not mean that we will never or never have vaccines for Venezuela. It is only that in this first round, Venezuela does not enter this list because it lacks transparency in the delivery of vaccines to the people it needs ”.

President Biden announced this Thursday that his country will immediately donate 6 million doses of vaccine to Latin America and the Caribbean. Through a statement, he stressed that the United States will share the inoculants “save lives and lead the world to end the pandemic, with the strength of our example and with our values ​​”.

Story statements take place on the same day as 40 medical and academic organizations denounce discrimination in COVID-19 vaccination by means of a letter addressed to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle bachelet.

“As Venezuelan civil society organizations, we want to express our concern about the recent human rights violations that have taken place in the country, in particular, the rights to life, to health, to non-discrimination and to equity in access to services, in the context of COVID-19 ″, begins the letter.

They claimed that on May 12 “It was denounced, with testimonies and photographic recordings, that in one day for the vaccination against COVID-19, to be carried out at the vaccination post, located in the hospital town of Dr. Enrique Tejera, in the city of Valencia, in the state of Carabobo, doctors and the elderly were not vaccinated because they were not registered in the Patria system ”.

“After waiting several hours, the staff in charge of this day posted a notice, outside the facilities, in which the above registration was required to be vaccinated. For the purposes of applying this decision, police officers were seconded to the site.“He added.

The 40 organizations recalled in the letter that they jointly signed that there is in Venezuela a similar background when it was planned to require the document entitled “Patria notebook“In other vaccination campaigns.

Venezuela continued on Tuesday in a particular race against time to reach the goal of immunizing 70% of the population, a process which apparently took on relative intensity over the weekend under a segregated system of “privileges” by the Carnet de la Patria promoted by Chavismo.

After six months of the first announcement of the acquisition of vaccines – a total of ten million doses – by the regime of Nicolás Maduro from Russia, Venezuela only managed to deposit “a little over a million”, without being entirely Russian, but China also contributed in part, the exact figure of which is unknown.

To keep the promise, said Health Minister Carlos Alvarado, around 3 million monthly vaccines would need to be applied to a population of around 30 million, and for this the scheme plans to increase the 27 centers that allowed on weekends.

Vaccination seems to be progressing, but under a system questioned by various sectors, which, as the Ministry of Health itself points out, is managed through the Patria system, to which all Venezuelans are not attached because it is a voluntary subscription platform.

“The People’s Power Ministry for Health informs that the selection process to receive the covid-19 vaccine is random and gradual and will be notified by SMS to the phone number registered in the Patria system,” Been’s portfolio wrote last Sunday. on Twitter.

The vaccination will take place according to this pattern, consisting of a parallel census that the regime uses to deliver social assistance, but which the opposition points to as a system by which the population is subjected to blackmail in the face of electoral processes.

In addition, both the opposition and the health union consider that This system is used at the convenience of the regime to first vaccinate his relatives and for this reason they denounce that vaccination is politicized and partisan.

Venezuela is at the bottom of Latin American countries with people vaccinated, according to national and international organizations. Across the country, not all health workers have been vaccinated, and in states like Carabobo, doctors have been asked for the “national card” to vaccinate them.

According to the NGO Doctors United, only 42% of doctors have received at least one dose of the anticovid vaccine. The health worker vaccination system works differently in Caracas, where health workers have been summoned via lists provided by clinics and hospitals.

Chavist regime vice president Delcy Rodríguez announced on Tuesday that Venezuela had already added 235,567 COVID-19 cases and 2,661 deaths since the start of the pandemic in the country.

With information from the EFE

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