In the Investigative Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, the minister Enrique Paris ruled out that his predecessor, Jaime Mañalich, have had the intention to modify the data of deaths from coronavirus.
The Chamber investigates acts that may mean an unjustified reduction in the death registry due to the covid-19.
On the occasion, Paris pointed out that “when the pandemic started, the statistics originally fell on the cabinet of the previous minister” and added that it was his management that included “possible or probable cases.”
“Those possible or probable cases are those that are added when the Epidemiological Report comes out, where those cases that are not fully confirmed, that is, with PCR, are added, but there are cases that can enter or exit as the tests come out And that sum is obviously higher, because it currently reaches 13 thousand and so many cases, “said the head of the Minsal.
The Secretary of State also pointed out that in the last time the indications of the World Health Organization (WHO) for cataloging and coding deaths have been “fully” complied with. “That is what it cost to collect, but now we are doing it permanently,” he stressed.
The president of the commission, Marisela Santibanez (PC), pointed out that Mañalich is among the next guests to the investigative instance.
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