One of Dr Manzanero's professional colleagues doesn't like the way he's been handled.
And while he's no fan of Dr Manza's management style, Dr Fernando Cuellar appeared with Jules Vasquez on UnCut last night and said he does not agree with the way he is seemingly being disregarded.
What he does agree with, though, is that there needed to be some type of change within the Ministry:
Dr. Fernando Cuellar - Internist "It's disappointing that it was handled the way it has been handled. I'm pretty much sure that I expected different. Whatever the justification they're gonna use, if the reporting is accurate, which I think it is, there was no discussion with Dr Manza at least to tell him, bwai I think we wah do this this way. I used to criticize Manza directly, indirectly fi deh on Ask The Experts everyday. I say, my bwai you got better work fi do. You assign that to somebody else. And I tried to give Manza both personally, in meetings and so different advises and recommendation and indeed I felt that he did not take heed of many people, decentralization of the testing for example, increase in rapid testing, contact tracing, hiring people, all of these things could have been done."
Jules Vasquez "You felt it was too hierarchical?"
Dr. Fernando Cuellar "Exactly. I think things could have been done differently. And this dah noh hindsight or Monday morning quarterback. This was happening back then. We need to do things differently. We suggest things that should be done different and it wasn't."
Jules Vasquez "Fundamentally you agreed that we needed a change from Dr Manza."
Dr. Fernando Cuellar "We needed a change from how things were done. I noh wah get into personalities and so and it shouldn't be so. And let me state again the way how this is being handled is disappointing. It definitely should be handled differently. Got some respect fi the man and say, listen bwai, I think that we have a different… and if you agree and tell me why you disagree and so forth and if we can't see eye to eye then we wah have to figure how we wah do this thing out."
