From 7 in the morning of this Friday, the workers of the Garrahan hospital started a new strike that will be extended until Saturday. The force measure, convened by the State Workers Association (ATE) and the Civil and Guild Association of Professionals and Technicians (APyT), is a direct answer to Veto of President Javier Mileithat lowered his thumb to the emergency law in pediatrics and also to university financing.
The anger in the hospital is great. It is not the first time that the government turns its back on public health and educationbut this new attack lit all alarms. During today’s assemblies and The day will culminate with a mobilization to Plaza de Mayotogether with the Teaching Association of the UBA and combative unions. Besides, The daily left He could confirm that hospital workers They prepare to summon a mobilization in the case of Milei’s veto In deputies, summoning universities, retirees and jubilated, the disability collective and all sectors attacked.
It should be noted that the pediatric emergency law that Congress had recently approved is a regulation that sought to improve financing and ensure better working conditions for those who work in the hospital. In a press conference held this Thursday where they announced the measures, the workers said: “It is not the act of a power that has strength, but of a government in crisisrepudiated at the polls and without legitimacy to continue applying its chainsaw. Faced with this size attack, We demand that a national strike be convened to defend the Garrahan and universities. Enough complicity with this government. ”
What does the pediatric emergency law say that Milei vetoed?
The norm had been approved in both deputies and the Senate. Declares by dYears the health emergency in pediatric health and in national medical residences. Enables the reallocation of funds and the use of reserves aimed at critical situations to reinforce the care system.
Among the most relevant measures are The priority injection of resources for essential supplies, medicines, vaccines, equipment, building maintenance and hiring of personnel Key in pediatric care, as well as the immediate recomposition of wage salaries and non -care workers, including residents of all specialties. It is also provided that those who work in critical tasks within public and private hospitals are except for the payment of profits on guards, extra hours and sensitive activities.
According to the Congress Budget Office, to equate the remuneration at the level of November 2023 would represent for the State an additional expense of more than 65 billion pesos in the second half of this year and, annualized, would exceed 133 billion.
The project arose as a reaction to the increasingly deep crisis that the most important hospitals in the country are going through. Lack of budget and The fall in salaries pushed many health workers to resigncomplicating the coverage of guards and affecting the attention that childhoods receive in public hospitals.
In this scenario, the Garrahan hospital occupies a central place. It is not any hospital: it is the main center of high complexity dedicated to the attention of girls, boys and adolescents, and its situation reflects the general abandonment of public health.
The National Government decided to veto the law that sought to respond to this crisis. From the Casa Rosada they argued that approved it would put the public accounts in check, in a context where the adjustment is the norm. The decree that formalized the veto insists on the need to “take care of the fiscal balance”making it clear that government priority remains the adjustment, even at the expense of childhood health. This argument is part of the general policy of the ruling party to cut the budget and put a brake on any progress that implies more rights for the working people.
It should be noted that this Thursday, Garrahan workers increasing María Candelaria Perelli is in charge of the Hospital Digital Communication Department. It is the one who carries out a sustained campaign to discredit the claim carried out by health personnel, together with relatives of thousands of patients, against the emptying of the hospital at the hands of the government of Javier Milei. A campaign always based on Fake News misrepresented data and all kinds of intrigues disseminated by the Executive Directorate and reproduced by the allied journalistic companies of La Libertad advances. There it was put by the Communication and Institutional Relations Management of the National Pediatric Hospital, after an express request from the presidential advisor Santiago Caputo.
The town is on the side of health and public education, supporting the University and the Garrahan hospital. It does not accompany the corrupt or those who apply adjustments that destroy hospitals while doing business with people’s health, as we saw with the fentanyl scandal and the coimas in the Andis. As the workers of the Garrahan say, the government comes from suffering a hard blow after the Buenos Aires elections. It is time to coordinate all the necessary forces to defeat your adjustment plan aligned with the IMF.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
