In 2025 the interests of debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) add a total of U $ S 2,878.6 millionof which, according to the data of the Central Bank, US $ 1,205.6 million were already paid and two payments of US $ 791 are held in August and November.
In this way, currencies destined for payment to the international body The annual budget of the national state directed to the Garrahan hospital is equivalent to approximately 18 times. Currently, according to the official open budget site, the hospital has a current budget of $ 186,097.1 million of pesos, or the equivalent of about 150 million dollars.
1/ From here at the end of the year, US $ 1,582 million of debt interest to the IMF will be paid
There are 10.5 times the Garrahan budget (about US $ 1550 million) planned by Nation for this year#LugonesConelGarrahanno pic.twitter.com/uxEskijchj
– Lucía Ortega (@ortegalu_) July 14, 2025
Last week, the Milei government also allocated $ 4.2 billion to the cancellation of interest and public debt capital with external private. Or the equivalent of 28 Garrahan budgets.
He most important pediatric hospital in the country is financed in a 80% per nation and 20% by City of Buenos Aires. It crosses one of the worst budgetary crises, with a strong salary deterioration of all its staff, disinvestment (even in cases, as in the Oncology sector, without the operation of the gas in the middle of winter), while experiencing an increase in demand for attention. In conjunction, a repeated photograph of the definance that crosses the entire health system.
According to their workersin it Garrahan salaries do not reach to get to the end of the month. A worker or worker Camillera charges $ 800 thousand pesos, an administrative charge 10 years old, around $ 900 thousand, nursing salaries are around $ 1,300,000. In the case of CABA residents, for example, they receive a similar amount, when in certain cases they must make shifts that reach 80 hours per week.
Nation residences have been another target of attack. Recently, the Minister of Health, Mario Lugones, signed Resolution 2109/2025 in which labor rights are strongly attacked transforming residences into “scholarships”: there are hours of guard, the post guard hours are eliminated, vacations are reduced, the bonus, seniority, among other changes.
The National Government argues that “There is no money”and as with retirees and retirees and disability, universities, etc., repeat the mantra of the “fiscal balance”. However, the economic scheme maintains unquestioned erogations (despite its, worth the redundancy, social questioning), such as the payment of debt interest.
According to data from the Congress Budget Office (OPC)in the first six months the government of Milei already disbursed 6.1 billion pesos in public debt interest (in total between debt in pesos and dollars, including intra APN debt), or the equivalent of 33 times the Garrahan hospital budget.
Despite the millionaire payments of interests and services of the debtthis not to grow. In a year and a half of the government of Milei and the “serial indebtedness” Luis Caputo, the public debt valued in dollars grew US $ 94,681 million (+26%), and contrasted with December 2019, the rise is US $ 142,000 million (+44%). The objective of creditors, particularly external and international organizations, is not only to do important business with speculation with sovereign debt roles, but impose adjustment conditions and legal (pension, labor, tax) reforms tailored to the businesses of the great capitalists.
The loan with the IMF is graphic about it. According to the statistics of the Central Bank, Argentina disbursed in interest to the IMF between 2019 and 2025 a total of US $ 13,019 million. At the same time, debt capital and commitments of future interests that are unpayable, above $ 60,000 million, exceeding the fee that Argentina has planned in 1,352%. “This would be The greatest exhibition of the background in absolute terms in its historyapproximately 8,900 million more than the maximums achieved during the EFF (Extended Facilities Agreement) of 2022, ”said the technical report of the agency itself.
The Debt with the IMF It began with an illegal loan to the Government of Mauricio Macri in 2018 (without even going through Congress) for a total of U $ S 57,000 million (Of which $ 45,000 million were disbursed), exceeding the Argentine share and even breaking the statutes of the agency. The dollars that entered were used for the “rescue” of external creditors and capital escape. Not a single dollar was invested to improve the living conditions of the working majorities, on the contrary, the garment was more adjustment and crisis.
Not happy with this, thanks to the “validation” of Alberto and Massa of the debt with the IMF in Congress, along with Guzmán, and the “opposition” at that time on the right, and its “restructuring” by a loan of extended facilities, in April of this year the IMF (with other officials, but always the same objectives) could return to lend to Argentina. This time to Milei Government, for US $20 billionwhich already disbursed a little more U $ S 12,000 million.
In this way, Argentina heads by far the ranking of the most indebted countries with the IMF, with a debt of US $ 63,986 million. The figure represents more than the quadruple of the amount owed by Ukraine (country at war), which is in second place.
To demand that resources go to health and to meet social needs, not to validate an economic model for few and at the service of financial capital, this Thursday the workers of the Garrahan hospital go to unemployment and summon at 4:30 pm to all sectors in struggle to converge From Congress to Plaza de Mayo.
Retirees, fired in the fight of several factories, residents, Shipyard Río Santiago, nor a less commit the unity of the struggles and already anticipated they are going to add. For their part, the Cicop and ATE guilds call a national health strike.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
