Liliana La Rosa resigns from Minsa after Minister Condori's compliments to Congressman Aguinaga

The interpellation of Minister Hernán Condori at the plenary session of Congress postponed its possible censorship; however, since the Minsa raised voices of protest over his comments in favor of the congressman Alejandro Aguinaga. The former dean of the Peruvian Nursing Colleges, Liliana La Rosa, announced her resignation as coordinator of the Investment Program “Creating Integrated Health Networks” following Condori's flattery for Congressman Fujimorista.

“I submit my irrevocable resignation. I believe in health as a right and reproductive health as the right of every woman. I think the healthcare revolution is an emergency,” he wrote on his Twitter account, referring to Alejandro Aguinaga's participation in the case of forced sterilizations when he served as Minister of Health during the government of Alberto Fujimori.

“Today, before the whole of Peru, we saw the Minister of Health congratulating one of the former ministers who created one of the most scandalous public policies that mourned entire families and filled the lives of many sisters sterilized against their will with sadness. Not like that,” he stressed.

In mid-December 2021, the judiciary decided to initiate legal proceedings against Alberto Fujimori and former health ministers Alejandro Aguinaga, Marino Costa Bauer and Eduardo Jong Motta as mediated authors of forced sterilizations that affected 1,300 poor and Quechua-speaking women. Those mentioned will be investigated for crimes of serious injury followed by death and serious injury, wrongful committed by an organized power structure in a context of serious violations of human rights.

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“(I want to) congratulate Congressman Aguinaga. He was Minister of Health. You and your team, doctor, developed a manual for the prevention of cervical cancer for early detection in 2010. This is one of the good things, among many, that you have done when you were Minister of Health”, were the words of Minister Condori who aroused the indignation of some parliamentarians who recalled Aguinaga's involvement in the case of forced sterilization.

Congresswoman Ruth Luque de Together for Peru he showed his rejection of the attitude of Hernan Condori. “I am struck by the fact that the Minister of Health has congratulated Congressman Aguinaga, when we know that he is investigating the case of forced sterilization. So, I don't think it's possible that a set of answers can be congratulated, when we know clearly that many parliamentarians here are not going to forget what has happened in a painful time for sterilized women who have not achieved justice or (civil) reparation so far,” he said.

However, the congressman mentioned did not remain silent, but referred to what his colleague said. “I regret the pettiness of some fellow congressmen, as is the case with Mrs. Luque. I invite you here to discuss on the spot the issue of so-called forced sterilization. What was created in our government is a family planning and reproductive health program aimed at reducing the terrible maternal mortality rates in the country second only to Haiti,” Aguinaga said.

“There are those who want to divert the issue of sterilization, from the systematic abuse of human rights during the nineties, and they want to do so by talking about NGOs because they will never divert this issue by talking about the more than 500 million suns that Vladimiro Montesinos and Alberto Fujimori owe to the State. They will never talk about the debt of the 200 public servants or responsible third parties during the Fujimor i government,” was Sigrid Bazán's response to the words of the questioned former minister of the Fujimorist regime.

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