According to the Unified Biochemical Confederation of the Argentine Republic, the high cost of supplies puts the activity in a situation of instability and they could stop caring for patients.
The laboratories clinical analysis They would stop caring for social security and prepaid patients “if the imbalances caused by inflation and delays in payments are not corrected,” warned the Unified Biochemical Confederation of the Argentine Republic (CUBRA).
According to the entity, the measure could be implemented within 20 days, since “the devaluation of the peso, the indiscriminate increases of the medical supplies that arrive in dollar value (between 225 and 30% only in the last 15 days), the outdated value of the Biochemical Unit and the excessive delay in payment by social and prepaid works (between 60 and 90 days after payment the benefit) put the activity in a situation of enormous instability and precariousness“he emphasized.
The president of CUBRA, María Cecilia López, warned that “the majority” of biochemical laboratories suffer “great risks of continuing with their work, given that they will soon not be able to meet their obligations, such as salary increases, bonuses, Christmas bonuses, if the Government does not collaborate in agreeing to an increase in the Biochemical Units”.
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“Our inputs have increased between 50 and 400%. Those that have had the most impact are the syringes, needles and disposables that are needed every day to continue caring for patients,” the leader warned.
Furthermore, López complained about the tax burden and demanded that the Government “take the necessary measures to put this desperate situation in which patients are being put back on track.
Freezing of prepaid
As part of the measures to moderate inflation after the harsh data in August, Sergio Massa applied the freezing of increase in prepaid. Despite the complaint, they finally signed all of them into the agreement with the Ministry of Economy.
The measure was made official by the Argentine Health Union through a statement that indicates that “the companies of Prepaid Medicine agreed to maintain no increases fees for ninety days for family groups with income not exceeding $2 million gross per month and to the extent that they declare that they do not have the economic capacity that allows them to meet the quota with the current adjustment scheme of the health cost index.”
For its part, Sergio Massa He explained that the measure has the purpose that “the effort made by workers and the State is also accompanied by health care that does not punish the worker’s bills.”
Source: Ambito
