After months of massive assemblies, stops and great mobilizationshe Senate approved By very wide majority Pediatric Emergency Law. It is one Conquest achieved thanks to the strength of their workerswho put the body on each day of struggle and persistence in not letting a single lie of the Government pass, today making a strike and mobilization to Congress.
This Thursday the Senate deals with the pediatric emergency and the Garrahan workers summon unemployment and mobilization: thus they are now marching towards the congress where they will converge with other sectors in struggle. pic.twitter.com/JtexalLpyh
– The newspaper (@IZYDIARIOS) August 21, 2025
The approval is in the middle of the crisis that put in the center the role of the Minister of Health, Mario Lugones, for the deaths of Fentanyl contaminated, as well as the accusations of corruption towards Karina Milei and Lule Menem with business with laboratories After the appearance of audios of Diego Spagnuolothe former disability agency.
Thus culminated a long day of Losses for the Government in the Senate where the law of university financing, and presidential decrees were rejected that attacked national roads, INTA, INTI, the National Theater Institute and Popular Libraries, as well as the National Bank of Genetic Data. The approved pediatric emergency law raises the Salary recomposition As November 2023, recognizing inflation, the Budget increase intended for operation and repeal of the resolution of Lugones to eliminate rights to residents.
Milei’s criminal policy and Lugones
The official response was to deny the crisis and reject the emergency. “There is no sanitary collapse” They have come to say with more than two hundred resignations, with nurses having two or three jobs to keep their own children. Senator Carmen Álvarez Rivero (Pro), aligned with the ruling party, who held a few days ago “I do not believe that Argentine children have the right to come to the claw to be cured, that right I do not know him,” he tried a sketch of false apologies to try to delegitimize the claim by raising “how many boys in the provinces can come to the Claw?
From the portfolio of Lugones They lied by saying that the majority of workers is from the administrative section, is not only the other way around but the proportion of administrative and healthcare personnel fell compared to 2014. budget Del Garrahan, they say, rose 287% in nominal terms since 2023, but with accumulated inflation of 351.11%, that means that in reality 14.2% in real value was lost. It is a brutal adjustment, say what they say.
In addition, Milei and Lugones changed the National Residences Systemreplacing them with scholarships and destroying labor rights of health professionals. It is the same usual plan: empty the public so that the private ones do the business, and that the crisis is paid by those below.
Urgent claims, misery salaries and unhealthy conditions
In the last year, the Garrahan lost more than 240 workers and professionals of all kinds of disciplinesalmost 5% of the plant. The teams that were formed for decades are disintegrating, because working conditions are unhealthy, eternal days and outrageous salaries.
Workers have been denouncing that, since November 2023, the inflation was 254.75%, but the increase in basic salary barely reached 124.7%. A shillero with 10 years old charges just 800 thousand pesos and an administrative does not reach the million. It is not accidental: Milei and Lugones have been applying an emptying plan, with their sights to benefit private health businesses and comply with the IMF demands.
A nurse charges $ 380,000 and a radiologist through $ 500,000.
That is the situation that the workers of the Polyclinic of San Justo and airways told me today. There are no inputs, the system does not work, and everything is held with the effort of its more than 300 … pic.twitter.com/m4bvSVxqbF– Nicolas del Caño (@nicolasdelcano) August 21, 2025
All while the Basic family basketaccording to ATE Indec, it is at 1,869,924 pesos, which is what they claim from the assembly of workers. That is: they do not even cover the minimum to live. This salary reality is not exclusive to national hospitals, a few kilometers from the claw, in hospitals in The killinggoverned by the Peronism a Nurse charges $ 380,000 and a Pasant radiologist $ 500,000.
How to continue before the veto?
The fight for the pediatric emergency is just the tip of an iceberg. The July 17 mobilization not only showed the solidarity that maintains the claim of the workers of the Pediatric Hospital, but also the Potential that has the unity of all sectors that today suffer attacks, layoffs, salary and veto cuts to laws that come to give elementary responses to the social crisis and the adjustment that is lived.
Voting in deputies and the Senate today show the deep crisis that the government is going throughand that all the policy of adjustment was only supported by the complicity of sectors such as pro, radicalism and Peronism. The fight of families and workers in the area Disability He showed that with persistence, mobilizations and struggles it is possible to break Milei’s vetoes, so it is necessary to follow that path. Garrahan’s struggle became a national cause and an example to follow: it is necessary to unite it to the fight of retirees and retirees, to the defense of university financing, to the fight for the emergency law in disability and that of the workers dismissed in Secco and Georgalos.
The message is clear: if the claw wins, we all win. Therefore, the organization from below, in democratic assemblies, and the demand for the CGT and the CTA for a national strike and a true struggle plan, are more urgent than ever. Only mobilization, unity and persistence can stop attacks, defend health and conquer rights for the working people. There is no time for speculation: It is on the street and in the organization where the future of public health and all our rights is played.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
