It is not possible that due to budget excuses we have children in inhumane conditions," stated Prado. She also recalled that recently the Law of Family Foster Care was approved to reduce the dependence on the institutional model, after numerous scandals occurred in state shelters. The Public Ministry, for its part, confirmed that it has already carried out expert examinations in the investigated center and maintains an open case for alleged irregularities, after a complaint was filed by the president of the Commission for Women and Children of the National Assembly. Meanwhile, the Minister of Health reported that in-depth medical evaluations will be carried out on 12 minors from the comprehensive care center, distributed in sessions of four per day, in order to confirm their health status. "Very deep examinations will be performed on them to see if they have any type of disease that has not been discovered before," indicated the head of Health. In parallel, UNICEF made an urgent call to the Panamanian State to expand at the national level the foster family programs, a model that, according to international experience, offers better care and development conditions for children while their legal and family situation is resolved. From the National Assembly, Deputy Yanin Prado defended the supervision carried out by the Commission for Women and Children and rejected that it be "media shows". "Many of those children have mothers and fathers. I invite you to look at a time series of the last 10 or 15 years to see how many resources have been allocated to childhood. First, we must see if the nuclear family can receive them, then the extended family, and only as a last option a shelter."
