A judge ordered that the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) to investigate the Deputy Secretary for Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell, for possible crimes of omission in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic, Javier Coello, the lawyer handling the case, reported this Thursday.
“Yesterday (Wednesday) the judge (…) ruled that the office of the attorney general must thoroughly investigate this case,” he told the network. RadioFormule Javier Coello, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs.
He explained that the charge against López-Gatell had its origins in the deaths of relatives of two of the workers of his law firm due to Covid-19.
The resolution issued by the controlling judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center in the South Prison, Ganther Alejandro Villar Ceballos, in a trial on January 19, instructs the FGR investigate the Deputy Secretary and any other official who may be responsible for possible omissions in dealing with the pandemic.
Part of the legal argument is that the official “had the obligation, the duty to take care, to prevent everything that has been known since January 2020 and he has not done so,” Coello explained.
He added that the complaint tells what he called “negligence” by López-Gatell. Among them, Coello explained, was the ban on private hospitals testing for Covid-19 among the country’s population.
“It will be a crime of manslaughter by default,” the lawyer said.
Hugo Lopez-Gatell He was appointed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as the person in charge and spokesman for the Mexican government’s strategy to tackle the coronavirus pandemic that began in the country in February 2020.
During his assignment, the official was involved in several controversies involving the use of masks, the need to perform massive tests to detect the disease or the actual number of deaths due to the health emergency.
In recent weeks, Mexico has faced a vertigenic increase in the number of infections.
The country registered 60,552 new cases on Wednesday, a maximum in nearly two years of the health event, according to figures from the Ministry of Health. In total, the country adds 4.4 million infections from the disease and 302,112 deaths.
Experts point out that the Covid-19 infections in Mexico, of 126 million inhabitants, would be far more than those reported by the authorities because it is one of the countries that performs the fewest screening tests in the world, according to a follow-up by the University of Oxford.
Mexico conducted an average of 0.33 tests per 1,000 inhabitants last week, according to the study.
In laboratories and in modules of the mayor’s office in Mexico City to detect the coronavirus, long and numerous lines have been observed since the beginning of the year.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx