Colombia's health minister not planning to save lives during COVID-19 pandemic

[Judi Lynn]

by Adriaan Alsema August 3, 2020

Colombia’s health minister said Sunday “the worst is still to come” of the coronavirus in the country’s largest cities, indicating he has no intention to do anything about it.

In an absurd interview with newspaper El Tiempo, fiercely criticized Health Minister Fernando Ruiz admitted not having expanded the country’s hospital capacity as promised and that the virus is now out of control. Notwithstanding, the minister showed no interest in regaining control and prevent unnecessary deaths.

I’m not going to applaud myself as long as there are families are mourning.

Health Minister Fernando Ruiz

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Colombia’s health community has long broken contact with Ruiz because of his lack of reliability and denial of scientific evidence, but the newspaper of President Ivan Duque‘s financial patron allowed the health minister to talk freely.

The health minister took the opportunity to contradict renowned epidemiologists, discard the broadly recommended use of testing and deny evidence from European countries that a pandemic can be controlled to prevent a healthcare collapse, mass death and extended damage to the economy if managed correctly.

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