The Secretary of Health of the State of Mexico informed that it will sanction the director of Medical Center “Lic. Adolfo López Mateos“, Identified in social networks as #LordVacuna, for having promoted the application of the vaccine against COVID-19 to two of their relatives.
Through a statement, the Mexican health department detailed that the director of the medical center will face sanctions, first, by the internal control body of the Health Secretary, to later give view to the Comptroller General of the State of Mexico.
The case became relevant when it became known on social networks, where netizens revealed their alleged identity and christened it #LordVaccine. The topic was highly commented on on Twitter, to the extent that it became a trend on that social network.
After it was announced that the doctor vaccinated his family, despite the fact that the first doses of the vaccine against COVID-19 were available for health personnel who fight the disease on the front line, the state Health Secretariat announced that it will reinforce the log filter of candidates to receive the vaccine, “In order to prevent these practices from being repeated.”
“It is necessary to emphasize that the vaccine in this first stage of its application will only be provided to medical personnel from the State of Mexico, which is on the first line of care for patients affected by COVID-19. As part of the security filter that the State Health Secretariat will apply, the precise identification of each of the doctors and their place of assignment stands out ”,
Statement from the Ministry of Health of the State of Mexico
In addition, the Mexican health agency warned that “all irregular conduct on the part of the medical and administrative sector, regardless of rank, will be sanctioned, in case of incur in violation of the protocols and application of vaccinates people who it still does not correspond to them”.