Deputies takes sides for health after WHO’s departure and ministerial “restructuring”

In addition to guaranteeing international cooperation of technology, supplies and technical knowledge, WHO offers funds to support programs for transmissible, children’s and mental health diseases. Without the global guidelines -to those who Argentina adheres since 1948 by Law No. 13,211- nor a budget project approved in the Congressthere would be few accounts to give the government regarding its sanitary measures. The transcended suggest that the body’s exit would occur through a DNUwhose validity can be revoked by the Legislative Power In 10 days.

“Common sense makes noise, because Argentina is implies a lot of steps to enter an international organism and retired would seem very simple,” admitted a legislative specialist consulted by Scopethat he asked to reserve his identity and indicated that “the doctrine and constitutionalist authors mention the subject and so far it is confirmed that there is no tax response, but recommendations or opinions.” To that legal vacuum, the expert added an antecedent of departure from an agency without parliamentary debate: “It is the case of Unasur, because in 2019 the decision was made to withdraw Argentina without having an act of notification or administrative internal”.

Reaction of the Chamber of Deputies

From the Chamber of Deputies, Rejection expressions multiplied. “They leave Argentina out of multilateral cooperation in an increasingly globalized and interconnected world,” he lamented Maximiliano Ferraroholder of the Civic coalition. “Public health cannot depend on the ideological dogmatism of the president, whose objective is that health ceases to be a right,” said the UCR In a statement, before issuing an information request to know the role of the Ministry of Health In the decision and “If it has been founded on a medical and scientific analysis “. Different was the position of Martín Maquieyra (Pro)who relativized the effect of WHO’s departure: “International relations do not add up, but It is a message for what was the handling of the pandemic of that organism. “

Union for the country anticipated presenting a resolution project to ratify the relevance to the WHO and thus avoid “biased strategies where we lose scientific standards.” “I saw a lot of concern and annoyance in the other blocks,” He said to Scope The deputy Cecilia Moreauone of the signatories of the initiative.

Pablo Yedlin, head of the Public Health Commission And member of this block, he met with referents of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)from where they transmitted their concern because Argentina also retires from that body. “It would be a disaster and would imply even more losses,” they said from their surroundings. “From the PAHO, vaccines, strategic guidelines are received and there are agreements. That organism is more technical and more interesting; Getting out of there can be more harmful, ”said Maquieyra.

Until the OSS Argentina’s exit is made through presidential decree, Congress can only bring positions and coordinate future lines of action. Although in 2024 the only historical background of repeal of a DNUlast year the opposition claimed unsuccessfully to sustain the activity of the Bicameral Commission for Legislative Procedure(Check the decrees). Nor could he reach the quorum to reform Dnus’s law. Will the retreat of the WHO a turning point represent?

Deputies articulate demands from the health sector

In the first two weeks of the year, The Ministry of Health announced the dismissal of 1,400 workers. The program Remedy for drug access; the Vaccine address nationally; Specialized programs in HIV, hepatitis and tuberculosis; the Directorate of Direct Assistance for Special Assumptions that responded to Oncological patients; Reference hospitals, such as Garrahan, the Posadas and the Bonaparte: All were reached by the drastic de -financing decision that the Government delineated for this sector in 2025. These sectors were gathering weekly in the Public Health Commission to express your demands in common. The space summoned the minister three times Mario Lugoneswhich never attended.

One of those affected by the dismissals was Jimena Lettieri, who worked more than two decades in the Posadas Hospitalwhere there were 120 disaffection. “These attacks not only hit the hundreds of families who are left without work but also produces enormous emptying and de -financing of public health,” he reflected and said that “They never gave us an explanation of why those dismissals were given.”. “This Government has gotten fully against health and, as we achieved in this country to have a free and quality public health, we will defend it,” he said.

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The last informative meeting of the Health Commission gathered actors affected by the health policies of national management.

“The idea is to be able to come together to some general extent that unifies us all, either in a health march or in some other activity,” he shared Leonardo Fernández Camacho, secretary of ATE of the Bonaparte Hospitalwho pointed out that from the Executive “they did not demonstrate any interest in reviewing the measure of dismissals or conversing on the critical points that leave in the hospital “among which he listed the Mental health emergency care line, childhood service and psychiatry guards.

Other expressions for this medium came from the Garrahan Hospital: “The demands have not been satisfied by the State,” he said for this medium Alejandro Lipcovichdelegate of ATE of the health institution, who acknowledged that there was an extra increase of 15% added to the state parity (around 1.2%), but said that residents were not reached by this increase and that economic balance sheets are not informed of the organism. “We are against a hospital to have to be governed by business criteriabecause its function is not to generate gain. Even so, there is no budget at all, because it is not in accordance with the needs, “he added.