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Falconi is the third health minister to resign in some 40 days.
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Newspaper El Comercio reported that there were also coordination issues with the delivery of jabs, saying that similar issues occurred in Guayaquil.
“Our seniors deserve the utmost respect. What happened today has no justification.
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67 killed in mutinies at three prisons in Ecuador
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Sixty-seven people were killed in three prison mutinies carried out by criminal organizations in Ecuador, the head of the National Service of Attention to People Deprived of Liberty (SNAI) said on Tuesday.
SNAI director Edmundo Moncayo said that some members of staff were injured in the disorders but none were among the dead in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
Earlier in the day President Lenin Moreno said that “criminal organizations” were carrying out violent acts at a number of detention centres at the same time.