Authorities involved in poisoning scandal seeking personal benefits says victims’ leader

Former Health Ministers,officials and board members of the Social Security Fund (CSS) were involved in the Diethylene glycol scandal that killed over 150 Panamanians says Gabriel Pascual, leader of the Committee of Relatives and Victims for the Right to Health and Life.

Speaking on Telemetro (March 30) he said they were involved in events that led to the poisonings when the anti-freeze component was put into medicines given to patients through the CSS.
These people did not play the roles assigned to them in the supervision and monitoring of the functioning of the CSS. And had to be called to testify, he said.
He added that former state officials were out shopping but " when the raw material arrived in 2003 it was not necessary because there was plenty in the production laboratory.”

Pascual said that in this case there were many interests seeking personal benefits. "And everything is in the file".
He said recalled that the case file has over a thousand volumes, including attachments, and research that tell the facts. "We have always demanded justice for the victims of the poison.”