UDI holds Araos responsible for health crisis management and disqualifies AC v. Minister Aguilera

UDI General Secretary María José Hofmann indicated that the unions would not advance the process against the head of the health portfolio, Ximena Aguilera, because “it is clear that the minister does not have to take responsibility for a false undersecretary that the president today is obsessed with not wanting change.”

The Secretary General of the Independent Democratic Union, María José Hoffman, indicated this morning that the party would not endorse a constitutional impeachment against Health Minister Jimena Aguilera, in the context of the respiratory virus crisis that went down in history. It caused the deaths of six children, as confirmed by Mensal yesterday.

From this point of view, the former deputy indicated, “The government cannot be so stubborn, for every week we receive precedents of negligence in which the undersecretary acts, and at the end of this week it was from the minister, when she indicated that they had made the corresponding invitations to connect the two public figures. And private in a particular clinic and this is very dangerous.”

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Hoffman points to the controversy after it became known that Minsal was unable to obtain a bed at the Las Condes clinic that would have been occupied by one of the infants who had died of syncytial virus (RSV) related causes. For this reason, there have been calls from the political scientist of the Undersecretary of Aid Networks, Fernando Araus, to resign from his position.

For this reason, the former deputy noted, “In any mistake of this kind, they fire you for this kind of negligence. It will not seem fair to us, because everything must be evaluated in due time, and the minister charged when we clearly know that the responsible person is the undersecretary.”

For Hoffman, Secretary Aguilera “doesn’t have to take responsibility for a bad undersecretary.” But he noted, “Of course, if the government does not take its measures, all measures will be evaluated in due course.”

“It is clear that the secretary does not have to take responsibility for a bad undersecretary that the president today is obsessed with not wanting to change,” he added.

“What is the obsession with keeping an undersecretary who has shown real signs of enduring neglect? So we hope the president makes that decision in the next few hours or this week,” Hoffman said.