(MENAFN - Gulf Times) Ex-Peruvian health minister Oscar Ugarte took up his old role again yesterday, after his predecessor resigned over claims that a former president was vaccinated against Covid-19 long before the jab was available to the public.
Ugarte, a physician who had served as health minister under President Alan Garcia from 2008 to 2011, was sworn in again yesterday, and thus became Peru s fifth health minister since the coronavirus pandemic emerged in the South American country 11 months ago.
He succeeds Pilar Mazzetti, who had served as health minister since July. She presented her letter of resignation on Friday to President Francisco Sagasti, state television reported.
Making. martha: but you are talking about their feeling toward this case. i m talk about whether or not they have the right to pursue it. you don t argue they don t have the right to pursue it, correct? you say you don t like the feeling and you feel it s vin dicktive or they have another agenda but obviously they have the right to do what they are doing? if it s a selective prosecution and they never go after anybody for the first gun possession case, that would be peculiar and it would be something to highlight in federal court. martha: i hardly think this is a case where this is a person is not someone who has dealt with the law. he is a seven-time felon. he has been five times deported from the country. so to say he is just sort of this innocent person who doesn t deserve this kind of scrutiny by the federal government is a bit of a stretch. i do want to talk about the political nature of this. let me move on. this is ugarte, your co-counsel talking about what he sees as a po