Lacerda Sales said he gave “information that this case would be heard without preferential treatment.” “I sent all the processes that formally came to me to different institutions, and there were hundreds of them,” he added to Expresso. In the interview, he also clarified that there was no other interference.
“I did not make any appointments, I did not call, I never received any formalized process and therefore I also never formally contacted Santa Maria Hospital,” he said, to which he added: “I take responsibility for what may have happened in my office, with or without my knowledge, and I would like to apologize to the good Portuguese and understand that if something happened, it had a single purpose: to save two children.”
Regarding the second meeting, Lacerda Sales said Brazilian health officials were present and the twins’ case was not discussed. He also explains that he spoke now only because he had to request documentation from the Ministry of Health.
UNKNOWN CONTACT The former health minister said that Marcelo’s son Rebelo de Sousa did not realize that there would be a parallel process or that there were contacts with the Dona Estefania Hospital and the Civic House. CIVIL FRONT ASKS FOR AN EXPLANATION The vice-president of the Civil Front, Paulo Batalha, believes that Lacerda Sales only remembers what is in the documents. “There are still important things that are not explained that we risk never knowing,” he notes.
Author: João Saramago
Source: CM Jornal
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