Ione Belarra skips Public Health and buys 1,600 flu vaccines for its staff

The Minister of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, Ione Belarra, has bought 1,600 vaccines against the flu virus for your department staff. Instead of going to public health, the also secretary general of Podemos will sign two contracts for 9,160 euros in total to achieve these doses.

The contracts, as confirmed by OKDIARIO in the Hiring Portal, they are titled Provision of doses of vaccines against seasonal flu in the building on Paseo del Prado, 18-20. This building is the public property that houses the Ministry of Ione Belarra as well as those of Consumption (Alberto Garzón) and Health (Carolina Darias). The first contract is “lot 1” of “900 doses” and the second is “lot 2” with another 700 vaccines.

The Ministry of Health awarded the general contract for the vaccines in September for 266 million. It was about «Framework agreement for the selection of suppliers of vaccines against seasonal flu for certain contracting bodies of the General State Administration, the National Institute of Health Management (INGESA) and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla and several autonomous communities. However, Ione Belarra is not satisfied with the ordinary way to get vaccinated in public health centers and wants a special system of doses in the building where she works.

When looking for purchases of influenza vaccines outside the framework agreement in the Contracting Portal, cases such as that of Ione Belarra are very scarce. Some University he also buys vaccines on his own.

It is also striking that another of the exceptions comes from the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030. It is the Institute of Youth (Injuve) that leads Maria Teresa Perez (We can). This organism is going to contract “a service of the preventive specialty of medicine of the work for the personnel of the INJUVE in Madrid” by 214,580 euros that also includes administration of vaccines against the flu.

It should be remembered that this same ministry, when I was in charge Pablo Iglesias, He already ignored the Spanish public health service and opted to buy materials outside the official system. As revealed by OKDIARIO, they bought 2,000 private tests of coronavirus for the ministerial team to avoid, they said, the “delays” in the state Health. In a response following a requirement by the Transparency Law, the task awarded by finger, through a minor contract, to the private company was explained Abbott Rapid Diagnostic Healthcare.

Total, 11.000 euros to ensure 2,000 antigen diagnostic tests for the special Medical Service that exists in the building that houses the Ministries of Health, Consumption and Social Rights.

«Since March 13, 2020 and due to the fact that Health personnel were declared essential personnel, it was considered necessary, to reinforce attendance of the Madrid Health Department during the pandemic, given the delay that was occurring in conducting tests, that the Medical Service carried out the sampling of the PCR tests on those public employees of the three ministries who met the criteria established by the Ministry of Health “, they argued.

That special medical service of the Ministry, which does not exist in other departments of the Executive, are four workers (a medical chief, a physiotherapist and two nurses) assigned to the portfolio of Ione Belarra, and not to that of Health. They attend the «civil servant, labor and senior staff of the three ministries ”on the ground floor of the Paseo del Prado building number 18 with“ the usual materials in any Occupational Health Service ”. Among its functions is, as they say, “health surveillance, assistance in the event of accidents at work and derived diseases, and, due to the pandemic that has occurred, has included carrying out support work for the National Health System.”

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