The President of the Government of the Canary Islands and Secretary General of the PSOE in the archipelago, Ángel Víctor Torres, stressed this Monday that "no one" can skip the vaccination order for the coronavirus and that whoever does so "will have to assume it and leave public office, if they have it, undoubtedly."
Torres made these statements in relation to the known public officials who have been vaccinated before their turn, including the Minister of Health of the Cabildo de La Palma, Susana Machín, to whom the PSOE of the Canary Islands has opened an information file.
In this sense, the President of the Canary Islands has opposed the statements of the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, in relation to the fact that members of the Government, the General Staff or the Army have to be vaccinated first, a question that he pointed out that he does "not" share "at all." "First, dependent people have to be vaccinated, those who have pathologies, those who are over 80 years old, then those over 70, those over 60, those who are at greater risk of dying have to be vaccinated," he said in statements to RNE in the Canary Islands collected by Europa Press.
Torres added that he, at 54 years old, has "at this time, for medical reasons, less risk than all these people who are ahead" of him. "No one can skip it because it is a medical criterion and whoever does so will have to assume it and leave public office, if they have it, undoubtedly."
Susana Machín received the vaccine "by express order" of the medical director
However, with respect to the Minister of La Palma, Torres has clarified that there is still "information to come" and that, when it is available, the decision that must be made will be adopted. And it is that, according to the Ministry of Health, Susana Machín was not on the vaccination list received by the Canary Islands Health Service, but "was included in the vaccination process by express order of the medical director of the Nuestra Señora de los Dolores Socio-Health Hospital Center," since she goes to the center "daily," where she has her office, "interacting with patients, family members and the rest of the workers continuously.”
"The PSOE has been emphatic, and I as regional secretary am: no one can skip the order, absolutely no one, first we had to vaccinate the residents, those who are in the centers for the elderly, those who work with them, there is a medical director who certifies, therefore, there is a medical question, not subjective, that certifies that the minister should be vaccinated, but there is a first quota of people who have to be vaccinated, later are the health workers, and no one can skip that order," added the President of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Therefore, he has stressed that "whoever skips it in a capricious, subjective way," the PSOE has said "clearly that they have to leave office" because "no one has to skip the order."
