Buenos Aires, August 20 (RHC)-- Argentinean Health Minister Ginés González García on Thursday denounced the discovery of four million doses of expired vaccines that the Mauricio Macri government never distributed and which were stored in a refrigerated warehouse.

According to the announcement of the health minister, authorities will launch a legal case to investigate the reasons why they were not distributed or destroyed, as prescribed in the health protocols.

The complaint emphasizes the fact that some of the formulations found in the warehouses correspond to vaccines that had low coverage in the previous four years, despite the existence of these reserves.

The health minister said that there would be more than two million doses of flu vaccine, as well as 600,000 of the so-called "triple" vaccine, which induces protection against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, just one of the vaccines that had low coverage in recent years.

The discovery came when the Ministry received the invoices for the storage of the vaccines which, according to González García, constitute evidence that the Mauricio Macri period "was a government that did not care about the people."