The first thing that stands out Claudia Negri In interviews, it is its 30 -year career at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the number of management positions it accumulates. He wants to show himself as an “outsider” of politics, although his own career in university political life contradicts it. Says that It was the Albertist owner, Juan Manuel Olmos, who chose her to go second on the list headed by the radical Leandro Santoro. Probably, Negri’s good relationship with heavyweights like Carlos Rojo (President of the Association of Municipal Physicians), or the Radical Emiliano yacobits (Business Man of the UBA and the Hospital de Clínicas), have configured it as a good candidate in the Buenos Aires political thread.
These links led to Claudia Negri a Share an act with Macrista Minister Fernán Quirósa week after the Buenos Aires Legislature would approve a law that left nurses and nurses outside of the career of health professionals. The table that shared the guild driven by Red, announced that they would present a new project only for doctors and medical. Instead of putting health workers on their side on the fight as a whole, they agreed exclusivity for the medical sector, between union leaders, authorities and the government of Jorge Macri.
In turn, Claudia Negri integrates the “university caste” that enables ties in public education for years with health corporations and great laboratories. Under its management as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from the University of Buenos Aires -along with the Dean Ignacio Brusco– An agreement was promoted with the Medical Simulation Center of the millionaire pharmaceutical brand roemmers. This type of agreements, mostly imply a free contribution to knowledge and/or provision of free services by students and graduates, for Companies whose main objective is not health itself, but profit with it. The persistent Privatist advance in public educationalso had Negri as an authority when the curriculum was reformed that strengthened postgraduate payments.
In addition to vice -dean, Claudia Negri She is the Superior Professor and Director of the Obstetrics career of the Faculty. And, the last years of de -financing in the public health of the city of Buenos Aires, crossed Negri as Chief of the Ramos Mejía Hospital Technical Department. Although the budget adjustment is the policy of macrismo, the hospital authorities administer it in particular. The legislator candidate on the left, Bari BasiHe told Negri as one of those responsible for “reducing the obstetrics area of that hospital to nowhere:” What did he do? Threw the obstetricians Because there is a birthday, “he said in an interview. Negri’s role is -at least- adapted to the emptying imposed by governments.
Being a medical and obstetrician, Negri launches like Candidate for Buenos Aires Legislator of the Peronist armed With a series of general health ideas, although without having presented a project. Among the proposals he expressed in interviews is: that the public hospitals work until 10 pmthat there are more professionals for critical epectialities, Budget increase and a concern about the approach to mental health.
But to reverse years of public health of public health, in a context of brutal adjustment by the government of Javier Milei and of the local management of Jorge Macri, It is necessary to grow an organized resistance; of which Negri does not participate. For example, the important fight against the closure of Hospital Laura Bonaparte -What addresses various mental health problems in a vulnerable and excluded population- found Claudia Negri as a true “outsider” of resistance.
There lies the counterpoint between speech and actions. What action can be expected in the Legislature, from a candidate who does not play her to defend the public spaces where she has management responsibility? That does not even show an active solidarity with the sectors of workers who do resist. And even puts the face in pacts that exclude them from labor rightsor directly leave them.
The Lack of a consequent struggle perspective in defense of public health and education, staining warmth to the candidate that accompanies Santoro. Luca Bonfanteyoung candidate of Front of the Left Unitthis contradiction has been pointing to the university authorities: after the massive federal march, Peronist and radical efforts agreed with the Milei government a minimum budget increaseand then they were responsible for demobilizing, while the student movement continued the fight in defense of the teaching salary with shots and public classes throughout the country. Claudia Negri, boasts of having many positions, but in every position she occupies, He is not played to defend the interests of the setbut prioritizes those of a few: university management, the hegemonic medical model, etc.
As for its proposals, it is sure to expand hospital care. But how to guarantee the time extension, Without a concrete proposal of how to start to governments the budget increase? If this fight is not faced, only the workload for health personnel would increase, as well as the escape of professionals to the private sector. Situation that is further worsening public attention and punishes majorities with endless tails, while limiting its access to treatments, many times with a shock of basic supplies.
On this problem, the left has a very clear position. To guarantee access to health and quality education, There is a hand brake on the adjustment. It is necessary ignore looting with the International Monetary Fundthat today they are renewed with the Luis Caputo and Javier Milei scam. Y also aim at the profits of large corporations, private medicine, laboratories and pharmaciststhat profit with the health and life of the majorities, and benefit from the emptying of the public sector. The left has no doubt what side to be: the lives of the working people are worth more than business profits. “There is money,” but a few are taken.
The list of Front of the Left Unit, It is made up of workers and young people, also from public health and education. In addition to resisting in their work and study places, they organize the Health and care postwhich is present in all manifestations to attend to the injured and wounds of repression. With the Retirees and retireesin the days against the Base Law and every time the government of Patricia Bullrich was confronted in the streets.
“Hundreds of workers who make the hospital day to day, and of the hundreds of families that are served with reality.. In this context where they attack public health, we respond with unity and organization ” -explains the candidate Esteban Argañarazworker and delegate of the Garrahan hospital, which also integrates the health post.
Other Left candidate who participates in the post is Yohia Cardoso Marinopsychologist, university professor and socialist feminist. When he was still a student of the UBA psychology empowered, he was part of promoting and organizing the Student resistance to the destruction of the Protected Workshop of the Borda Hospital, in 2013. “There many and many understood that the only objective of repression (who suffered both health professionals, patients, students and the community) was to move on the hospital land to continue favoring Real estate businesses“, Yohia denounces. This type of negotiated with public land, or with tax benefits, is one of the favorite issues in the Buenos Aires Legislaturewhere both radicalism, as freedom progress, and many times also Peronism, collaborate in the approval of laws in favor of large builders and real estate groups.
To also defend in the Buenos Aires Legislature, to public health and education where its professionals are formed, they need More benches at the service of amplifying resistance. From the fight in the streets and the organization from the places of study and work, The candidates and candidates on the left are a guarantee of standing in front of the adjuster governments and the large economic groups.
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