The mayor of Olavarria, Ezequiel Galli, said this Tuesday that if there was sabotage in the loss of 400 doses of Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus in that district, "we will have to go to the ultimate consequences.
"What happened is a confusing episode and is being investigated by the prosecutor's office," said the community leader who clarified that "if it is confirmed that it was sabotage, we will have to go to the ultimate consequences.
In a dialogue with La Red radio, Galli specified that the denunciation was filed in the Olavarría Prosecutor's Office N° 10 by directors of the Oncology Hospital, where the vaccine was stored, and explained that there "450 doses arrived, of which 50 had already been applied".
"The other 400 vaccines lost the cold chain because they were at room temperature," remarked the communal chief.
For Galli, the municipality "had no interference" and it was the Sanitary Region IX who had participation in the control of the vaccines.
"The first day of vaccination was December 30 and another 50 people had been scheduled since yesterday, and unfortunately the cold chain was lost and they must be discarded," he detailed.
The Health Ministry informed yesterday that "within the framework of the provincial campaign of vaccination against the coronavirus, which includes a permanent control of the logistics and the process of application of the doses, the Health Ministry detected a deviation in the cold chain of the vaccines" of that hospital.
Faced with this situation, it was "decided to withdraw them and restructure the district's vaccination, referring the health personnel who were to receive the vaccines to the neighboring municipalities.
Meanwhile, Marcelo Sobrino, the general prosecutor of Azul, explained that "it is being investigated if it was an electrical failure in the freezer or an attack", and added that the complaint was taken and the prosecutor immediately began the proceedings.
At that point, Galli considered: "The hypothesis being handled is a mechanical or electrical failure or sabotage. I find it difficult to think that there was a sabotage, I think there was an electrical failure during the long weekend".
He added that the issue of vaccination "was handled by the Province" and that "we had even made the Municipal Vaccination Center available.
In that line, the mayor stated that the municipal authorities were not "invited to the arrival of the vaccines" to the country.
"I would have gone, clearly. The pandemic and vaccination are too important to make political differences," Galli said.
And he clarified that "he always had a lot of dialogue" with the Buenos Aires Chief of Staff, Carlos Bianco, and that from the commune they have "tried to be bringing the situations of openness according to the balance they needed to find" in that district.
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